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WOW! Episode 146 of THE PODCAST ON HAUNTED HILL is here, and not only is it OUR TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY but also our CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!! Join us for this VERY special episode as we travel down memory lane discussing the highs, lows and everything in between! We also cover NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION (1989), and this leads into WORLD OF THE STRANGE where we discuss some FRIGHTFUL FAMILY FESTIVITIES!!! So tune in, download, listen, like, comment, and share!! “TAKE A LOOK AROUND YOU, ELLEN! WE’RE AT THE THRESHOLD OF HELL!”
Gav and Dan lend their unique perspective to horror films and the world surrounding them. With Gav's unique perspective as a filmmaker and Dan's peculiar perspectives, The Podcast on Haunted Hill offers a fresh view of horror cinema!
Speaker 1: The podcast on Haunted Hill will contain
Speaker 1: spoilers and swearing.
Speaker 2: I am the devil and I am here to do the
Speaker 2: devil's work.
Speaker 2: I sell this vicon.
Speaker 2: Be one of us.
Speaker 2: I didn't tell you my name, hang up.
Speaker 2: I didn't tell you my name.
Speaker 2: They're all apart.
Speaker 2: They're all apart.
Speaker 2: Come it is time to keep your appointment.
Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to the podcast on Haunted
Speaker 1: Hill 140.
Speaker 1: 66 is Happy Christmas, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: My name is Gav.
Speaker 1: I'm Dan to Clause.
Speaker 1: Dan to Clause, indeed, gavi Christmas.
Speaker 3: I like that.
Speaker 3: Gavi Christmas Sounds like a children's TV
Speaker 3: presenter.
Speaker 1: Hope everybody's having a good time and is
Speaker 1: happy and festive and pleasant.
Speaker 1: And if you don't celebrate Christmas,
Speaker 1: you're just doing what?
Speaker 1: If you do and you're happy though, or if
Speaker 1: you don't like being happy, you're sad in
Speaker 1: what you do, I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1: I suppose, if you don't like to be happy
Speaker 1: and you're always annoyed and sad, but that
Speaker 1: makes you happy, surely that's you being
Speaker 1: happy.
Speaker 1: So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm stuck for that now.
Speaker 1: I'm confused.
Speaker 3: One of my best friends is only ever happy
Speaker 3: when he's got something to moan about, and
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about you.
Speaker 1: I know who you're talking about as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, rob.
Speaker 3: So some people are happy, but listen what
Speaker 3: Gav's trying to say is, but that is him
Speaker 3: happy even though Greg Orn never happy.
Speaker 1: But you're happy, not being happy, he's not
Speaker 1: happy actually.
Speaker 3: If he hasn't got a list of things to moan
Speaker 3: about, he's not happy, he doesn't know what
Speaker 3: to do with himself.
Speaker 3: But I think, gav, what you're trying to say
Speaker 3: to our lovely listeners is happy holidays,
Speaker 3: happy festivities, even if you don't
Speaker 3: celebrate it.
Speaker 3: You might just get a half a day or a day to
Speaker 3: put your feet up, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: Relax, enjoy yourselves and enjoy this
Speaker 3: festive time.
Speaker 3: This is a very, very, very, very, very
Speaker 3: Double celebration Special episode double
Speaker 3: rainbow.
Speaker 3: This is a double celebration because this
Speaker 3: is our annual Christmas special.
Speaker 3: But the other reason this is another
Speaker 3: special episode is not only is it our
Speaker 3: annual Christmas special, it's our 10th
Speaker 3: annual Christmas special, which means that
Speaker 3: this is our 10th year anniversary episode,
Speaker 3: ten years of podcasting.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, isn't it?
Speaker 3: So may I be the first, first of all, to
Speaker 3: wish you a Merry Christmas, gavin, and a
Speaker 3: Happy New Year if I don't speak to you
Speaker 3: before then, and on top of that happy
Speaker 3: fucking anniversary, my friend, I know 10
Speaker 3: years.
Speaker 3: Bit weird, isn't it?
Speaker 3: 10 years, that's longer than a lot of
Speaker 3: people have had jobs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I absolutely adore podcasting.
Speaker 1: I loved doing it.
Speaker 1: I was doing it last night with my lovely
Speaker 1: lady a new episode of HighStrokesPodcom,
Speaker 1: which we did Christmas murder.
Speaker 1: So if you don't like happiness, you want a
Speaker 1: bit of death at Christmas, you can pop over
Speaker 1: there and listen to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love podcasting.
Speaker 1: I love podcasting with you.
Speaker 1: I love talking about horror movies.
Speaker 1: If we didn't podcast, I'd still be talking
Speaker 1: to you about horror movies, just with a
Speaker 1: microphone there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, exactly that, and we will
Speaker 3: get going to get into all of that today.
Speaker 3: So let's run through what this episode is
Speaker 3: about.
Speaker 3: Obviously, it's our festive episode, so
Speaker 3: we're going to be getting very festive in
Speaker 3: Christmasy.
Speaker 3: We're going to start off by talking about
Speaker 3: Christmas, what we like to do, tradition,
Speaker 3: what we've been doing, what films we've
Speaker 3: been watching.
Speaker 3: Our main review, which you already know
Speaker 3: because you clicked on this, is we're only
Speaker 3: doing one film because we've got lots of
Speaker 3: other stuff to talk about, but our main
Speaker 3: review is going to be National Lampoon's
Speaker 3: Christmas Vacation from 1989, because, even
Speaker 3: though it's not a horror film, it's got
Speaker 3: some pretty gnarly elements to it.
Speaker 3: I think you know the whole obstacles of
Speaker 3: family at Christmas, and the lighter side
Speaker 3: of it perhaps, but also the darker side of
Speaker 3: it.
Speaker 3: So that's going to be a very fun one.
Speaker 1: It's got a.
Speaker 1: It's quite an outlander sort of cult
Speaker 1: hemisphere I'd say really.
Speaker 1: I know it's not genre, but it is.
Speaker 1: It's there with a massive fan base of you
Speaker 1: know it's John Hughes as well.
Speaker 1: It's not a straight average Christmas movie.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit off the side there.
Speaker 1: And it's just enjoyable fun, so we thought
Speaker 1: fuck it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's both a part, you know, in our
Speaker 3: top five Christmas films of all time.
Speaker 3: We really love it and what fun to talk
Speaker 3: about.
Speaker 3: So we're going to be doing that and we're
Speaker 3: also going to be taking a trip down memory
Speaker 3: lane where we're going to talk about the
Speaker 3: last 10 years of podcasting, what that
Speaker 3: means to us, what how our lives have
Speaker 3: changed in those 10 years, what we've been
Speaker 3: the favorite memories, films, franchises
Speaker 3: and just really just shoot this shit really
Speaker 3: and pretend that you know we're in the same
Speaker 3: room with a glass of whiskey not that
Speaker 3: either of us drink Incredible An open fire.
Speaker 1: How many years ago was that memory podcast
Speaker 1: in front of an open fire?
Speaker 1: Richard's Get.
Speaker 3: Truck.
Speaker 1: I've actually heard of some of our
Speaker 1: listeners and thank you, listeners, for
Speaker 1: being listeners all this time and listening
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 1: I'll say listen a few more times, Listen,
Speaker 1: listen.
Speaker 1: I remember one of our listeners possibly
Speaker 1: saying to us at one point our older
Speaker 1: episodes of audio quality not as good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we kind of I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with that,
Speaker 1: because it's not like I've got better,
Speaker 1: because it's in 10 years I'm still doing I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, I think we have got better.
Speaker 3: I think we've been doing it long enough
Speaker 3: that we can record.
Speaker 3: We don't really edit much.
Speaker 3: You know, the odd time we might take
Speaker 3: something out or add something in or
Speaker 3: something might distract one of us and we
Speaker 3: have to like quickly stop recording for
Speaker 3: whatever reason.
Speaker 3: But we can do this.
Speaker 3: You know, we set aside an evening for
Speaker 3: anyone that doesn't know and we just sit
Speaker 3: down and we record.
Speaker 3: Then we take breaks, you know, as the
Speaker 3: breaks you hear throughout the episode.
Speaker 1: But we could do like a YouTube video behind
Speaker 1: the scenes.
Speaker 3: This is how we make a podcast.
Speaker 3: Everybody knows.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think there was an episode
Speaker 1: where you and I sat river fire so you'd
Speaker 1: have heard the fireplace crackling away and
Speaker 1: us.
Speaker 1: But we would have been sharing because just
Speaker 1: amateur, because like the same device I
Speaker 1: record our show on if I got to tell you
Speaker 1: what it is Zoom H4N, which I use for all
Speaker 1: our filmmaking as well this is the best.
Speaker 1: I love this device 200 quid.
Speaker 1: I bought it 12 years ago.
Speaker 1: It's fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: You can get it super cheap now and I'm
Speaker 1: really good.
Speaker 1: If you want to start podcasting, just give
Speaker 1: you that and make a model.
Speaker 1: It's pretty hardy as well.
Speaker 3: But we you know it's dirty.
Speaker 1: But with Sarah, for example, I have a mic
Speaker 1: going, an extra mic going direct into it,
Speaker 1: as well as a mic I've got on it going into
Speaker 1: it, so we could both talk.
Speaker 1: But when me and you used to do it, it would
Speaker 1: have been just that mic in the middle of
Speaker 1: the room and it's not like we were nose to
Speaker 1: nose.
Speaker 1: So we'd be like, hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not bad, but we did sit very
Speaker 3: close to each other on the sofa to try to
Speaker 3: make the same biscuit as we did.
Speaker 3: It's terrible.
Speaker 1: So those episodes would just be kind of
Speaker 1: like whack documentary style audio of just
Speaker 1: one mic in a room somewhere.
Speaker 1: If someone's talking you can't really hear
Speaker 1: them.
Speaker 3: But I think it's safe to say podcasting has
Speaker 3: come along way for everybody, for the whole
Speaker 3: world, in 10 years, because I think when we
Speaker 3: started out it was still relatively new.
Speaker 3: You know it was probably been going for a
Speaker 3: year or two but people were still finding
Speaker 3: their feet there and you know one was like
Speaker 3: there was no Joe Rogan's or that kind of
Speaker 3: thing.
Speaker 3: You know people weren't getting paid off of
Speaker 3: it Not that we're getting paid off of it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when Joe Rogan did start
Speaker 1: actually he probably was around 10 years I
Speaker 1: thought yeah Well, you got to think the
Speaker 1: advent of the smartphone was not till 2010
Speaker 1: with Apple's first iPhone.
Speaker 1: And that would have been a lot easier for
Speaker 1: people to listen to podcasts on the go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that's the other thing.
Speaker 3: It's not just about the recording.
Speaker 3: It is, then, about people being able to how
Speaker 3: they listen, if they're not just a home
Speaker 3: based on a computer or in the office, which
Speaker 3: people would do as well.
Speaker 1: I'm going to check out the stats for Sarah
Speaker 1: and I's show, the High Strangers podcast.
Speaker 1: I could see what devices listen.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I can see if it's a desktop or whatever,
Speaker 1: and most of the time Gav can see you.
Speaker 1: I can see what you're doing Most of the
Speaker 1: time, it's Apple iTunes on, I think,
Speaker 1: smartphones Most of the time and you can
Speaker 1: sort of see what it is.
Speaker 1: But yeah, back in the day, not so many
Speaker 1: people did it, so that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 3: It's Christmas time, so let's start things
Speaker 3: off festively.
Speaker 3: I've got some mince pies in the kitchen
Speaker 3: which I'll be eating periodically on our
Speaker 3: breaks.
Speaker 1: I fucking loved.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I made a bubble and squeak out of
Speaker 1: leftovers.
Speaker 3: Can you explain to anyone not from the UK
Speaker 3: what bubble and squeak is?
Speaker 3: It's a very British meal.
Speaker 1: The bubble and squeak is basically what
Speaker 1: happens when you do the cooking.
Speaker 1: You get your leftovers from a traditional
Speaker 1: roast dinner, so you know your turkey, your
Speaker 1: potato, your vegetables, any other little
Speaker 1: bits, and you have to have pretty much 50%
Speaker 1: potato to whatever else you have, because
Speaker 1: potato is the form that sticks it all
Speaker 1: together.
Speaker 1: And you get a frying pan, you put some oil
Speaker 1: in it and a knob of butter and put all your
Speaker 1: leftovers in.
Speaker 1: I actually diced mine up a bit, so it's
Speaker 1: super fine, that's mine, we've done it and
Speaker 1: then you put it in a pan for about 15, 20
Speaker 1: minutes with a masher.
Speaker 1: You kind of just mash it.
Speaker 1: This is like the cooking podcast we're
Speaker 1: doing.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the kitchen on Lunted Hill and
Speaker 1: you mash it together and eventually it
Speaker 1: forms together like a big patty and then
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 1: But it's the flavours of every bit of the
Speaker 1: roast dinner in every bite.
Speaker 1: All combined it's gorgeous.
Speaker 1: You could do it any food, you could do it
Speaker 1: with any leftovers, you could do bubble and
Speaker 1: squeak, and it's called that because it
Speaker 1: squeaks and it bubbles as you cook it.
Speaker 1: Yep, not sponge bubbles Only if you've
Speaker 1: really got liquid going on.
Speaker 3: When I was a kid, my mum had two budgies
Speaker 3: called bubble and squeak.
Speaker 3: So there we go.
Speaker 3: That's a little, but yeah.
Speaker 1: I put mine in my parents' and I said to my
Speaker 1: dad we have good Christmas, girlfriend.
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, yeah, dad, no ice, yeah.
Speaker 1: I said to her well, my bubble and squeak,
Speaker 1: it's the best thing, it is Better than
Speaker 1: Christmas dinner.
Speaker 1: That is the bubble and squeak.
Speaker 1: And she said I think I'll move you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh Well, I've got some mince pies to snack
Speaker 3: on and I think very quickly because I was
Speaker 3: rolling with my parents.
Speaker 1: But my parents say, yeah, air fryer for
Speaker 1: Christmas.
Speaker 1: My dad was a chef in the Navy.
Speaker 1: He's old now.
Speaker 1: He's not bothered about being here.
Speaker 1: He'd be happy where he's dead.
Speaker 1: He's the way he is now.
Speaker 1: He don't want to go anywhere, stays in the
Speaker 1: house, don't want to speak to anyone.
Speaker 1: Fuck off everybody, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: That's how he is.
Speaker 1: So I've got him an air fryer.
Speaker 1: Did he want it?
Speaker 1: Fuck did he.
Speaker 1: No way, does he want an air fryer?
Speaker 1: Tell my mum.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not using it.
Speaker 1: Could change it's different.
Speaker 3: I was like it makes your life easy.
Speaker 3: My dad was the same.
Speaker 3: I bought him a CD player 15 years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: A couple of days ago Dad got your CD player
Speaker 1: trade he said.
Speaker 3: And then mum looked at me and said they
Speaker 3: said we're not going to use it.
Speaker 3: And then within about five years they had a
Speaker 3: library of hundreds of CDs.
Speaker 3: Same thing happened.
Speaker 3: I bought him a DVD player.
Speaker 3: And probably five years after DVDs were a
Speaker 3: thing.
Speaker 1: This is exactly what I told you You've got
Speaker 1: to get him a dog, and every dog he says
Speaker 1: fuck off.
Speaker 1: You love a dog.
Speaker 1: If you had one.
Speaker 3: Well, my dad's got a blue ray player.
Speaker 3: Now You're the best planning buggy ever,
Speaker 3: but yeah you know he's all over it, but
Speaker 3: I've got some strawberry milk.
Speaker 3: I'm really into chocolate and strawberry
Speaker 3: milk this year, so I've been buying cartons
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 3: I had a carton of eggnog as well, which is
Speaker 3: nice.
Speaker 1: Because I don't drink anymore.
Speaker 1: I haven't drank for four and a half years,
Speaker 1: but when I used to have mice by about some
Speaker 1: sprites, I ended up getting addicted to
Speaker 1: chocolate milk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, I've
Speaker 3: been buying those, I know why.
Speaker 3: But it's very festive as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and my in-laws bought me a huge tray
Speaker 3: of really high quality cocaine.
Speaker 1: No, Was it good?
Speaker 3: Really high quality gingerbread.
Speaker 3: And, my God, I am fucking addicted to this
Speaker 3: stuff, to the point that my wife gave me a
Speaker 3: kiss good night last night.
Speaker 3: I was staying up late watching Santa's
Speaker 3: sleigh and I sat there with my glass of
Speaker 3: strawberry milk and she gave me a kiss and
Speaker 3: she went right, you need to stop eating
Speaker 3: this gingerbread.
Speaker 3: And I said what she went?
Speaker 3: You stink of gingerbread.
Speaker 3: I can smell it on your breath.
Speaker 3: You've got a crumb of it in your beard.
Speaker 3: You keep going in the kitchen and I know
Speaker 3: what you're doing.
Speaker 3: You keep going in there.
Speaker 3: How much is left in the box?
Speaker 3: And I say I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've left some for the kids.
Speaker 3: You're giving me boobs in gingerbread.
Speaker 3: I love gingerbread man Of everything.
Speaker 3: Gingerbread man, gingerbread Dan,
Speaker 3: gingerbread Dan can't catch me.
Speaker 3: I'm the gingerbread Dan.
Speaker 3: But we won't be eating whilst we record.
Speaker 3: We'll do all our eating in the brains.
Speaker 1: No, I've been told off.
Speaker 3: Don't gobble your nuts while we're
Speaker 3: recording.
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to do munching while we're
Speaker 1: recording.
Speaker 3: If anyone's going to gobble your nuts,
Speaker 3: it'll be me, all right, hello.
Speaker 1: So I could have 100 moles between this, but
Speaker 1: all right, no.
Speaker 3: You've got long balls, so it's fine.
Speaker 1: I do, I have, but no, why am I telling you
Speaker 1: that?
Speaker 3: I love the honesty.
Speaker 3: This is the many years of friendship and
Speaker 3: ten years of podcasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like I'm happy, though it's not
Speaker 1: like this is going out to the world, so
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 1: You completely fucking frame me, all right,
Speaker 1: you frame me, fuck it.
Speaker 3: Well, look, let's start talking about what
Speaker 3: we've been watching, what we like to watch.
Speaker 3: Let's start off with anything we've watched
Speaker 3: recently.
Speaker 3: That's quite new.
Speaker 3: I know you're very excited to talk to me
Speaker 3: about a film called Hands of Steel.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not new to me, though it's not
Speaker 1: new to me.
Speaker 1: I know, I know but I still want to hear
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 1: Oh man, Hands of Steel, I might tell you
Speaker 1: what.
Speaker 1: Let me just pull it up for a second.
Speaker 1: What about the?
Speaker 3: synopsis Well yeah.
Speaker 1: Basically Hands of Steel.
Speaker 1: Last night I said, sarah, I managed to get
Speaker 1: to see Sarah this Christmas.
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was going to and I managed
Speaker 1: to get to see her and it was our last night
Speaker 1: together, I mean you know you don't see
Speaker 1: each other that much.
Speaker 1: So, like, what are we going to watch?
Speaker 1: It has to be something like it's really
Speaker 1: frustrating.
Speaker 1: You get to say go, that's a fucking waste
Speaker 1: of two hours.
Speaker 1: We could just say a chat or something.
Speaker 1: You know, and I found this movie on Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime from oh, it's 1986.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm doing a review, but I'm
Speaker 1: going to do the synopsis.
Speaker 3: Please do, because you've been banging on
Speaker 3: about this so I want to hear.
Speaker 1: Oh, I told you about it.
Speaker 1: I had some friends come over earlier and I
Speaker 1: was chatting to them about it.
Speaker 1: Oh no, a cyborg is programmed to kill a
Speaker 1: scientist who holds the fate of mankind in
Speaker 1: his hands.
Speaker 3: Like all over this straight away.
Speaker 1: A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist,
Speaker 1: who holds the fate of it?
Speaker 1: And the scientist in question is John Saxon.
Speaker 1: Fuck me, he fails in an Italian film.
Speaker 1: He fails and hides in a diner what he fails
Speaker 1: and hides in a diner run by a woman who
Speaker 1: likes him.
Speaker 1: She wants him dick.
Speaker 1: The people who sent him here sent him what
Speaker 1: Sent him after him, so it's the local arm
Speaker 1: wrestling champ.
Speaker 1: That is really bad.
Speaker 3: What the local arm wrestling champ.
Speaker 1: Right, this dude escapes from John Saxon
Speaker 1: and he's basically massive.
Speaker 1: He's kind of your Swatchenegotype, but he's
Speaker 1: kind of charismatic as well in a sort of
Speaker 1: way.
Speaker 1: It's a bit I don't know kind of.
Speaker 1: He wasn't just like completely brain dead,
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: That's what you kind of possibly thought.
Speaker 1: He escapes and he manages to get to this
Speaker 1: bar out of diner and it happens to be a
Speaker 1: load of rough guys in there, sort of mobike
Speaker 1: gang type of that.
Speaker 1: But this woman's like I need some work done,
Speaker 1: can you help me out for bed and board?
Speaker 1: And he's like yeah, no, no, no, no problem,
Speaker 1: trouble is there.
Speaker 1: They're all like there's a guy there who is
Speaker 1: called he is basically arm wrestling
Speaker 1: champion of the town Amazing.
Speaker 1: Bronco, I think he's called or something
Speaker 1: like that, or Blanco or something like that,
Speaker 1: and he's pitchers up on the wall as well.
Speaker 1: But you've got all these other guys there
Speaker 1: and they're basically just like all having
Speaker 1: arm wrestling competitions.
Speaker 1: Then he's there and there's this bit where
Speaker 1: he gets a bit of toyed up the bad guys.
Speaker 1: There's one particular guy he doesn't get
Speaker 1: along with.
Speaker 1: He gets the waitress when she sends him out
Speaker 1: to go get some beer for him out the back
Speaker 1: and come back for some toilet paper to take
Speaker 1: over to him.
Speaker 1: He reads it and it says you'll need this to
Speaker 1: wipe your arse from the ship after you shit
Speaker 1: yourself.
Speaker 1: For me, beating you armwrestling, it's
Speaker 1: really bad.
Speaker 1: It's a great movie, by the way.
Speaker 3: I mean, I've just looked at the poster and
Speaker 3: it looks fantastic from the poster.
Speaker 1: The poster was what in the video shot back
Speaker 1: in the day that was that movie would have
Speaker 1: got it and I'd been happy.
Speaker 1: I was over the moon with this film, like
Speaker 1: I'm telling you now.
Speaker 1: So he looks down.
Speaker 3: It sounds like the Terminator meets over
Speaker 3: the top, but done with John Saxon and
Speaker 3: Italian.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with big laser guns as well.
Speaker 1: That's another boy.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
Speaker 1: And he looks down and he starts writing
Speaker 1: something called the kitchen worktop, snaps
Speaker 1: it off and throws it on the table at them
Speaker 1: because they gave it, and it just says
Speaker 1: you're on, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's a bit of a waste.
Speaker 1: So, anyway, he beats the guy and all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: And then there's other stuff, though.
Speaker 1: You've got John Saxon and his guys and the
Speaker 1: FBI after them after him, because he's out
Speaker 1: of control.
Speaker 1: But there's a segue to our last episode.
Speaker 1: In this, one of the main actors, claudio
Speaker 1: Cassenni, and an aircraft, a helicopter
Speaker 1: pilot, crashed and died in the making of
Speaker 1: this.
Speaker 1: Oh, wow, interesting John Saxon because of
Speaker 1: SAG, that's, the Screen Actors Guild,
Speaker 1: because he I think it's Green, because he
Speaker 1: was going to keep into their roles.
Speaker 1: He said I won't shoot anything in America,
Speaker 1: I'll just do all my shots in Italy.
Speaker 1: And the helicopter crashed into America and
Speaker 1: he would have been in the helicopter.
Speaker 3: Bloody hell.
Speaker 1: So John Saxon were a daughter in the 80s.
Speaker 3: Thank God he didn't.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I really enjoyed this film.
Speaker 3: Well, I've just added it to my watch list.
Speaker 3: It's on Prime for free to watch if you've
Speaker 3: got Prime.
Speaker 3: So, hands of steel.
Speaker 3: Everybody watches it.
Speaker 1: Just get on that shit honestly, it's so
Speaker 1: good.
Speaker 3: I love it when you come across or I come
Speaker 3: across one of these, oh Hands of Prime is a
Speaker 3: beauty for that, like when I recommended
Speaker 3: that Island of Death to you.
Speaker 1: It's just a film that I yeah, we watched it,
Speaker 1: and Sarah says we should cover it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we should.
Speaker 3: It would be a fun discussion.
Speaker 1: That's the thing, though, because sometimes
Speaker 1: certain movies visually might not be good,
Speaker 1: but audibly, doing a podcast reviews, it
Speaker 1: comes across so much better.
Speaker 1: But anyway, hands of Steel for 1986 is 1800,
Speaker 1: hour and 30 minutes.
Speaker 1: Just fucking get on that, get on it.
Speaker 3: Well, I discovered a hidden gem myself from
Speaker 3: the 80s, which a lot of people will already
Speaker 3: know about, but I believe it's a German or
Speaker 3: French film.
Speaker 3: It's called Deadly Games from 1989.
Speaker 3: And basically it's like Home Alone.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know of it, yeah.
Speaker 3: But Home Alone meets.
Speaker 3: It's Halloween, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're a bit gutted.
Speaker 1: It's because it wasn't American.
Speaker 3: If it'd been American, it might have been
Speaker 3: possibly picked up before they actually
Speaker 3: tried to sue John Hughes, but he was able
Speaker 3: to prove that Home Alone was already in
Speaker 3: production.
Speaker 3: But it's about a young boy who lives in a
Speaker 3: huge mansion because his parents are rich
Speaker 3: but he's on his own and he lives there with
Speaker 3: his grandfather and then a man, a really
Speaker 3: creepy guy dressed as Santa, breaks in and
Speaker 3: tries to kill him and his dog and his
Speaker 3: grandfather and he basically has to home
Speaker 3: alone the shit out of it.
Speaker 3: But it's really brutal because he's
Speaker 3: European and I think I'll probably watch it
Speaker 3: again next Christmas because, you know,
Speaker 3: like the first viewing of something you
Speaker 3: just like wow.
Speaker 3: So I think my second viewing of that would
Speaker 3: be really good.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, I love discovering these hidden
Speaker 3: gems.
Speaker 3: I've not really watched anything new other
Speaker 3: than stuff I discussed in our last episode,
Speaker 3: like something in the barn or, um, werewolf
Speaker 3: Santa or Violent Night, um.
Speaker 3: But is there anything else you wanted to
Speaker 3: talk about before we move on to just sort
Speaker 3: of traditional or favourite Christmas films,
Speaker 3: to watch.
Speaker 1: I got Colombo Boxer from Sarah for
Speaker 1: Christmas and I watched uh Vincent Price
Speaker 1: and Martin Sheen episode and it was really
Speaker 1: enjoyable yeah, colombo's.
Speaker 3: We've talked about Colombo before.
Speaker 3: It's very well crafted, you don't?
Speaker 3: They just didn't.
Speaker 3: They don't make them like I used to.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of enjoyable, but it's.
Speaker 1: It's my age.
Speaker 1: I am as well like if I've been a 17 year
Speaker 1: old, be like I'm not fucking sitting here
Speaker 1: watching this for an hour and a half the
Speaker 1: age I am now quite happily just sit there
Speaker 1: and go.
Speaker 1: Okay, we, because of the formula of the way
Speaker 1: it works, we know who did the killing.
Speaker 1: We've seen that in the first 15 minutes.
Speaker 1: Now we've got to figure out.
Speaker 1: Colombo's going to figure it out and it's
Speaker 1: such fun and that's actually I take about
Speaker 1: what I said.
Speaker 3: They do make them what they used to, I
Speaker 3: believe, in the last five years.
Speaker 3: Tv is actually really, yeah, incredible now.
Speaker 3: Um, and people you know you've got big
Speaker 3: Hollywood actors appearing in TV shows now
Speaker 3: that are incredible.
Speaker 3: You know some of the Star Wars stuff on
Speaker 3: Disney plus.
Speaker 3: Some people don't like it, but some people
Speaker 3: do.
Speaker 3: Some people are saying it's the best Star
Speaker 3: Wars stuff since start the originals.
Speaker 3: And then there's other stuff.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good crime stuff out there
Speaker 3: and there's been some great horror shows as
Speaker 3: well.
Speaker 3: So actually TV is very good but, um, yeah,
Speaker 3: fargo, there's a really good crime show.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna see the first few seasons, but
Speaker 1: I've seen the first three.
Speaker 3: I want to see the new one actually it's on
Speaker 3: Amazon Prime also.
Speaker 1: I've got all four seasons, three.
Speaker 3: That's how I watched the third season yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to.
Speaker 1: Uh, I probably just jump on to the fifth
Speaker 1: one.
Speaker 1: That's a new one.
Speaker 1: I should really do the fourth.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen.
Speaker 3: I'll probably watch season four, but, um,
Speaker 3: I'm not in a rush because they're quite
Speaker 3: slow paced, but they are very enjoyable, um,
Speaker 3: okay, well, let's talk about, aside from
Speaker 3: National Olympians, christmas vacation,
Speaker 3: which we're going to cover in great detail,
Speaker 3: christmas favorites to watch for, and some
Speaker 3: of these I'm sure you will agree with as
Speaker 3: well.
Speaker 3: You know, you tell me yours, I'll tell you
Speaker 3: mine.
Speaker 3: As they say, I tell you I've got a soft
Speaker 3: spot over the years, the last sort of 10
Speaker 3: years, and I really love.
Speaker 3: I always try and watch Jingle all the way.
Speaker 1: It's so cheesy and silly, but I had it on
Speaker 1: the background this year for Elijah because,
Speaker 1: um, elijah and I, whenever he's over with
Speaker 1: like he doesn't have a bedroom here, he's
Speaker 1: like the living rooms, his bedroom with me,
Speaker 1: you know, and so we're always together a
Speaker 1: lot.
Speaker 1: So, in the background, while he's playing
Speaker 1: and stuff, I put on Jingle all the way it's
Speaker 1: just so good, um, you know, and it just
Speaker 1: makes you feel festive really.
Speaker 3: I also watched and I do watch this every
Speaker 3: year, probably, since you saw it in front
Speaker 3: of us, better watch out which it's just an
Speaker 3: incredible film that came out for Christmas
Speaker 3: yeah, I uh uh.
Speaker 1: Elijah and Charlie, formerly known as Jay
Speaker 1: um, watched um it because they're like no,
Speaker 1: I've seen that.
Speaker 1: I was like sure you haven't seen that,
Speaker 1: because I swore that's the perfect movie
Speaker 1: for us to watch yeah and they hadn't.
Speaker 1: So we saw them, watched it and they really
Speaker 1: enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It's a good gateway horror for you know,
Speaker 1: I've, I've kind of just with Elijah, I've
Speaker 1: kind of just recently he showed me a
Speaker 1: Netflix TV show called One PC.
Speaker 1: So he's just a yeah sandy man but it's a 15
Speaker 1: and I've watched it all the way through.
Speaker 1: He's watched it multiple times, like you
Speaker 1: would when your kid used to watch the same
Speaker 1: video tape, and over and over and um, he's
Speaker 1: obsessed with it and it's a fifth.
Speaker 1: I was like this is a 15, no.
Speaker 1: And then I was like hang on, he's 10 next
Speaker 1: year.
Speaker 1: Like I know I might sort of thought about
Speaker 1: my own and I'm not a psychopath, I've not
Speaker 1: killed anyone.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go and get a hockey mask and
Speaker 1: not if anyone out.
Speaker 1: And uh, I just thought, oh, fuck it up.
Speaker 1: So I've dropped it at a bar.
Speaker 1: A little bit of him.
Speaker 1: I'll show him a few 15 horror movies here
Speaker 1: and there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know what?
Speaker 3: My dad did the same with me.
Speaker 1: He, not he understands effects because he's
Speaker 1: been with me when I've been making films my
Speaker 1: dad did the same with me.
Speaker 3: He introduced me to the bruce lee movies
Speaker 3: around about the age of 10.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, once I was once that was
Speaker 1: okay.
Speaker 3: I then got into stuff that had a bit more
Speaker 3: violence in it, and then things like
Speaker 3: sitting down and watching the thing you
Speaker 3: know and I already see.
Speaker 3: We grew up watching movies that shouldn't
Speaker 3: really been aimed at children, like some of
Speaker 3: the indiana jones scenes, joules, these
Speaker 3: movies that definitely are questionable.
Speaker 3: Really, when they came out, um, even stuff
Speaker 3: like the twilight zone feels a bit kid
Speaker 3: friendly, but actually when you sit and
Speaker 3: watch it you realize, wow, there's stuff in
Speaker 3: this that was would have really affected
Speaker 3: people.
Speaker 1: I do feel, though, in a way, a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff is good.
Speaker 1: Like I um what we're watching horror movies
Speaker 1: was quite young and, when it comes down to
Speaker 1: it, I, you learn lessons from these movies
Speaker 1: because you see these idiots do really
Speaker 1: stupid things, you're like, why'd you do
Speaker 1: that?
Speaker 1: And you just you learn stuff from movies.
Speaker 1: Um and uh, alongside, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: too like uh, uh, we're getting into realms
Speaker 1: of rape or uh, mental abuse or torture or
Speaker 1: anything like that, or animal torture, I
Speaker 1: think.
Speaker 1: I think you could get away with a lot of
Speaker 1: things with her.
Speaker 1: I think it's not.
Speaker 3: I don't think they're bad lessons on these
Speaker 3: films yeah, and I think the only that's the
Speaker 3: only area my parents drew the line was they
Speaker 3: didn't they weren't comfortable with me
Speaker 3: watching sex scenes at a young age and, to
Speaker 3: be honest, I wasn't comfortable because I
Speaker 3: didn't really understand what I was
Speaker 3: watching.
Speaker 3: And secondly, if I was, I remember watching
Speaker 3: Ghost with my mum and dad yeah, I've
Speaker 3: watched Sex and Swords with Buckets and
Speaker 3: when that scene happened with with Patrick
Speaker 3: Swayze and Demi Moore really getting it on.
Speaker 3: You know it's all fun and games at the
Speaker 3: pottery table, but then it gets really hot
Speaker 3: and heavy and I remember my dad pausing it,
Speaker 3: going right.
Speaker 3: Well, that's enough of that.
Speaker 3: I think me and mum will watch the rest of
Speaker 3: this.
Speaker 3: Make sure it's okay for you guys.
Speaker 3: And I remember thinking what, what's
Speaker 3: happened.
Speaker 3: It's so bad what I, and it made it seem
Speaker 3: even weirder and seedyer to me.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: yeah, because you're going upstairs to bed
Speaker 1: going what's going on then?
Speaker 3: and you're going to watch what's Patrick
Speaker 3: Swayze doing.
Speaker 1: You can imagine what happens.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I did because he got a clay
Speaker 1: penis.
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: but yeah, um, also, you know, every year I
Speaker 3: watch Home Alone.
Speaker 3: For first Home Alone, it's got to be
Speaker 3: watched.
Speaker 3: It's an absolute classic.
Speaker 3: And again I'm trying to sit in there with
Speaker 3: my two year olds.
Speaker 3: We have Home Alone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to explain to them because
Speaker 3: they're getting upset, because the burglars
Speaker 3: are getting hit in the head with bricks.
Speaker 3: You know they're getting their heads set on
Speaker 3: fire and they're looking at me going daddy,
Speaker 3: he needs a plaster.
Speaker 3: Daddy, he needs a doctor.
Speaker 3: I'm like, fuck he does.
Speaker 3: He does need a doctor.
Speaker 1: Imagine that Home Alone was that Joe Pesci
Speaker 1: saying happens to him if he goes to
Speaker 1: hospital, comes back.
Speaker 1: Gets saying happens and if they go to
Speaker 1: hospital, come back.
Speaker 1: Just, it's like your, it's for your twins
Speaker 1: friendly fucking hell, what a different
Speaker 1: movie, but the hospital didn't question it.
Speaker 1: They patch them up and send them back
Speaker 1: because in your kids, mind they need that
Speaker 1: he's just keep going back and comes back
Speaker 1: with another bandage.
Speaker 1: He comes back and comes out.
Speaker 3: One guy at four degree burns all over his
Speaker 3: head.
Speaker 3: I don't know what happened to him, but um
Speaker 3: bandage.
Speaker 3: It looked like he'd been hitting that, but
Speaker 3: four bricks Strange.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've got to watch Home Alone
Speaker 3: every year as well.
Speaker 3: Um, I watched Rare Exports again.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I've seen it for a few years.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought it was fitting because, as
Speaker 3: you remember, we covered that as our first
Speaker 3: film we ever covered Old Man's Coxe 10
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah and god, there's a lot of old man's
Speaker 3: coxe in that flapping around in the wind at
Speaker 3: the end of it.
Speaker 1: It's not best when you get into High
Speaker 1: Definit, is it?
Speaker 1: Are you staring at on Blue Race?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was.
Speaker 3: If you're gonna see an army of naked old
Speaker 3: men swarming your village, you want to see
Speaker 3: an High Definition Gav, really Every grey
Speaker 3: pube.
Speaker 1: you want to see it Every swinging and
Speaker 1: thirsty.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that is a good one.
Speaker 3: Rare Exports Um, I also watched a couple of
Speaker 3: the classics, like Black Christmas.
Speaker 1: Oh, yep, so I did Black.
Speaker 3: Christmas Day.
Speaker 1: Christmas Day night.
Speaker 1: For me, every year is Black Christmas.
Speaker 3: Gets under my skin.
Speaker 3: Doesn't fucking love it.
Speaker 1: I also watched for the first time Bob
Speaker 1: Clark's other Christmas film as well.
Speaker 3: What a Christmas story.
Speaker 1: Never watched it before.
Speaker 3: It's my favourite Christmas film of all
Speaker 3: time.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed that and it's and it's
Speaker 1: Colchak as his dad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I always think you always
Speaker 3: mention Colchak.
Speaker 3: I'm like what the guy from Christmas Story
Speaker 3: is.
Speaker 1: He's more famous.
Speaker 1: He's the guy from Colchak.
Speaker 3: for me, christmas, Story is like, um,
Speaker 3: probably the American Colch Christmas film,
Speaker 3: but somehow my family recorded it when I
Speaker 3: was about eight or nine, off of television
Speaker 3: and we watched it every year and now I own
Speaker 3: it, um, and I.
Speaker 3: It hit differently this year because I'm a
Speaker 3: dad and my kids really get a Christmas and
Speaker 3: that scene where him and his wife sit back
Speaker 3: and just let their kids stare into the
Speaker 3: presents I just thought they've worked so
Speaker 3: hard to get everything they can for their
Speaker 3: kids.
Speaker 3: It's also crazy, funny, silly, sentimental.
Speaker 1: It does happen, though, when you have
Speaker 1: children, every time you go back to the
Speaker 1: movie every year, not just Christmas,
Speaker 1: different films as well.
Speaker 1: You start to see them different, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then you start to change your opinion of
Speaker 1: things, and then, all of a sudden, you're
Speaker 1: like, yeah, I quite like them.
Speaker 1: I'm dad and I used to think they're twats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah and now I'm like fuck them kids.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm funny enough, like with home
Speaker 3: alone, because my kids have watched
Speaker 3: probably watched that about 10, 15 times in
Speaker 3: the last two or three weeks and I realised
Speaker 3: that Kevin McCullister is a bit of a little
Speaker 3: dick and actually, yeah, his mum is quite
Speaker 3: sweet but he calls her a moron, you know,
Speaker 3: okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he gets into a situation where he's a
Speaker 3: bit stitched up and he gets picked on
Speaker 3: perhaps a little bit by his brothers and
Speaker 3: cousins, but he's not very nice to his mum
Speaker 3: at times.
Speaker 3: So a good life lesson for him there to be
Speaker 3: left alone for a week in a house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's not.
Speaker 1: He was basically.
Speaker 1: I was watching it for Elijah.
Speaker 1: I was like you're about the same age.
Speaker 1: I think he's eight years old, so he's
Speaker 1: slightly younger, so I asked Elijah what
Speaker 1: would you do?
Speaker 1: And he's just like uh, he's just because
Speaker 1: he's already cared about as his tablet,
Speaker 1: anyway, so we're watching Home Alone, but,
Speaker 1: um, yeah, he's not even a teenager.
Speaker 1: If he's a teenager, I would understand that
Speaker 1: response.
Speaker 1: So yeah, elijah would never speak to me
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Well Home Alone these days, anyway, you've
Speaker 3: got the internet.
Speaker 3: So if I was, you know if I'd left the kids
Speaker 3: at home, accidentally, on purpose?
Speaker 1: I tried to introduce Elijah to the
Speaker 1: Terminator, terminator 2.
Speaker 1: I didn't feel the first Terminator is a.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a bit too dark.
Speaker 3: I think the second one is a bit more
Speaker 3: kid-friendly.
Speaker 1: He wasn't really interested, watched a bit
Speaker 1: of it.
Speaker 1: But I said to him would you want to
Speaker 1: Terminator 2, look after you?
Speaker 1: Do you know what he said to me?
Speaker 1: Why do I need a Terminator when I've got
Speaker 1: you and you're the strongest and kindest
Speaker 1: person I know?
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And that made me very happy and I was like
Speaker 1: job done yes.
Speaker 3: That's good man, but respect from my son.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice to feel like you're a hero
Speaker 3: to your kids.
Speaker 3: Definitely.
Speaker 3: My kids tell me I've got big muscles.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I haven't.
Speaker 3: They clearly don't know their dad.
Speaker 3: And last night funny enough just last night
Speaker 3: Edith didn't want to.
Speaker 3: She struggles to get off to sleep at the
Speaker 3: moment, so I have to lie in the room with
Speaker 3: her and sort of stroke her hair.
Speaker 3: And last night she said I like you, daddy.
Speaker 3: I said why?
Speaker 3: She said because you've got big, soft hands.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 3: And I thought I came out and said to Alice
Speaker 3: I've got big, soft hands.
Speaker 3: She went right, I'm happy, it's a
Speaker 3: compliment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was very stoked to my compliment.
Speaker 3: Well, you are the you.
Speaker 3: You are the biggest and strongest person.
Speaker 3: I know as well, gav, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't need the Terminator if you were
Speaker 3: around.
Speaker 1: I'd look after you, but I'm not big.
Speaker 3: Would you pick me up on a motorcycle and
Speaker 3: drive me through some Bioducks, bioduck
Speaker 3: things, yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1: I can't run my bike, so I'm a crash, but
Speaker 1: yeah Well.
Speaker 1: I still like that you try Shit movie when I
Speaker 1: come back naked in the streets.
Speaker 3: Imagine you walking naked into a bar full
Speaker 3: of bikers.
Speaker 1: Fucking dangling testicles.
Speaker 1: Oh I who's got a fucking bike coming then I
Speaker 1: need you.
Speaker 1: I'm a dirty little cane for us.
Speaker 1: I need you motorbike and your clothes and
Speaker 1: your boats.
Speaker 3: Another festive favourite of mine, which I
Speaker 3: watched the other night and got, as always,
Speaker 3: a bit teary at the end, was Scrooge,
Speaker 3: because some people don't like the ending
Speaker 3: of that movie.
Speaker 1: I've not seen it since we covered it.
Speaker 3: But Bill Murray, just that speech he gives
Speaker 3: at the end, man, and the fact that he's got
Speaker 3: real tears in his eyes, just great.
Speaker 3: And also it's it's got some really good
Speaker 3: horror elements in that man as well.
Speaker 3: Some of the ghosts are great.
Speaker 1: All the Scrooge ones are good.
Speaker 1: Last year I really enjoyed watching the
Speaker 1: George Lee Scott Scrooge.
Speaker 1: George Lee Scott.
Speaker 1: George Lee Scott.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed watching him be Scrooge at
Speaker 1: one point, one of the one of the.
Speaker 1: It's always the ghost of Christmas past is
Speaker 1: always the best one.
Speaker 1: It's always like the gothicy, the big, the
Speaker 1: creepy one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the one everyone looks forward
Speaker 3: to, because they're like what's he gonna
Speaker 3: look like in this one?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's pretty spooky stuff.
Speaker 3: Cut off a sail.
Speaker 3: I've watched Die Hard.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, sara and I did Die Hard.
Speaker 1: It's another staple of mine.
Speaker 1: I had a boxing day, though I used to think.
Speaker 3: I really liked Die Hard too, and I do like
Speaker 3: it, but it is nothing compared to the first
Speaker 3: one.
Speaker 3: The first one is just no, but it's still
Speaker 3: enjoyable.
Speaker 3: I think the first one is a.
Speaker 3: I would give it a 10 out of 10.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty perfect film really.
Speaker 3: The cast, the lines, you know everything
Speaker 3: about it really.
Speaker 3: And for the first time, I got emotional at
Speaker 3: the end.
Speaker 3: You know, when Al and John find each other
Speaker 3: this year, I was thinking, feeling a bit
Speaker 3: festive, and I thought, wow, they're in
Speaker 3: love.
Speaker 3: I'd like to see a spin-off where him and Al
Speaker 3: run off together.
Speaker 1: And and, uh, algol drives him yeah he's
Speaker 1: there driving.
Speaker 3: His tunes are always so banging, he's so
Speaker 3: funny Made me realise that Christmas and
Speaker 3: Hollis by Run DMC is probably my top five
Speaker 3: Christmas film songs of all time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I walked in CX yesterday and it's
Speaker 1: just finishing.
Speaker 1: I was gutted, gutted.
Speaker 1: Whenever I hear it, I'm like it's Christmas
Speaker 1: time and while I was in there, I picked up
Speaker 1: National Land Cruiser location on Blu-ray,
Speaker 1: which was quite handy.
Speaker 1: I never got to see the commentary track
Speaker 1: which I was going to do, or gutted for, and
Speaker 1: I'm gutted that I never did the Randy Quaid
Speaker 1: sequel.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've done it.
Speaker 3: Oh great you can tell us about.
Speaker 3: Let us know.
Speaker 3: At the end of the first one.
Speaker 3: Last night when everyone was all tucked up
Speaker 3: in bed, I watched two more and then I'll
Speaker 3: stop then and we'll talk about, we'll get
Speaker 3: into other things.
Speaker 3: I watched the calendar which we covered the
Speaker 3: advent calendar last year, which still
Speaker 3: holds up, because we both really enjoyed
Speaker 3: that and that was a lot darker than we
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be.
Speaker 3: That was great.
Speaker 3: So if anybody hasn't seen that, it's a
Speaker 3: French film I believe French or Belgian, I
Speaker 3: think it's French about a woman in a
Speaker 3: wheelchair who gets a mysterious advent
Speaker 3: calendar sort of a great big box with doors
Speaker 3: all over it and if she doesn't follow the
Speaker 3: rules of the advent calendar.
Speaker 3: It's about like jigsaw meets the ring kind
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 3: It's very creepy.
Speaker 3: There's some really good deaths and gory
Speaker 3: stuff going on there.
Speaker 1: Listen to our review lot from last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year was upset.
Speaker 3: And then, to finish up the evening was I
Speaker 3: sat there with my glass of strawberry milk
Speaker 3: and my my gingerbread, while my wife told
Speaker 3: me off.
Speaker 3: I watched just human sugar.
Speaker 3: I was just literally.
Speaker 3: That's why I had a mental mid-night, it's a
Speaker 3: fucking hard line.
Speaker 3: It's Christmas.
Speaker 3: I watched Santa's sleigh, which I think we
Speaker 3: covered many years ago, with Bill Goldberg
Speaker 3: the wrestler running around time with a
Speaker 3: great big ball or a hell deer, as he calls
Speaker 3: it just killing old ladies and anyone that
Speaker 3: gets in his way, basically, and that's a
Speaker 3: good, fun film.
Speaker 3: So I've been watching lots and I've still
Speaker 3: you know we've still got a few days, you
Speaker 3: know.
Speaker 3: So I'll still be watching lots of Christmas
Speaker 3: stuff over the next few days as well.
Speaker 3: Still want to check out Fat man, which I
Speaker 3: know you said is a good one.
Speaker 3: So that's another one to check out for me
Speaker 3: and even though it's getting dissed, I'm
Speaker 3: going to check out.
Speaker 3: It's a Wonderful Knife.
Speaker 3: Still want to check that one out as well,
Speaker 3: but I know it's getting dissed.
Speaker 3: I will probably check it out.
Speaker 3: And if you've watched or any of the
Speaker 3: traditional films you like to, sit in watch.
Speaker 1: I've just been doing all that I need for
Speaker 1: the horses.
Speaker 3: You watched.
Speaker 3: It's a Wonderful Life, didn't you?
Speaker 1: just like I didn't get through all of it
Speaker 1: because I did it whilst cooking.
Speaker 1: It's quite a long one that one, yeah, and I
Speaker 1: did enjoy it, but it was a case of like I
Speaker 1: was pausing at times there because people
Speaker 1: come in to talk to me and then we're
Speaker 1: leaving the kitchen again.
Speaker 1: I'd carry on cooking.
Speaker 1: I wasn't cooking in my own kitchen, I was
Speaker 1: cooking in the ex-wife's kitchen.
Speaker 3: And also that's what the mum in Gremlins
Speaker 3: watches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, and that is kind of I quite a
Speaker 1: dig that that I was doing that, you know,
Speaker 1: while I was cooking.
Speaker 3: I did watch Gremlins as well, and that's
Speaker 3: that's probably another film that we
Speaker 3: watched at a very young age.
Speaker 3: Talking about earlier topic, when you look
Speaker 3: back at it now you think Jesus Christ man
Speaker 3: there was.
Speaker 3: She was putting these things in the blender
Speaker 3: in the microwave.
Speaker 1: Well that I do apologize.
Speaker 1: Got a bit of a cold in that time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what made me feel sick.
Speaker 1: I went around my friend's house as a kid
Speaker 1: and his mum gave us tomato soup and said,
Speaker 1: yeah, I'll watch the Gremlins.
Speaker 1: So I sat and ate a bottle of bowl of soup,
Speaker 1: you know, and it got to that scene and
Speaker 1: they're blending the green stuff and I I
Speaker 1: can remember it like it was this morning,
Speaker 1: honestly.
Speaker 1: I remember walking out the stairs, walking
Speaker 1: out of the living room exactly, and sitting
Speaker 1: on the third or fourth step up and just
Speaker 1: sitting there and I could hear it going on
Speaker 1: and I was like no, I couldn't watch it.
Speaker 1: I was as little.
Speaker 3: That's the weirdest.
Speaker 3: That's two scenes for me that really hit me
Speaker 3: as a kid, where the dog being hung in the
Speaker 3: Christmas lights because I'd never seen an
Speaker 3: animal harmed.
Speaker 3: That I can remember in a film up until that
Speaker 3: point, and I was probably eight, nine when
Speaker 3: I watched Gremlins and I thought, jesus
Speaker 3: Christ, these things have hung a dog.
Speaker 3: You know, I didn't didn't know that he was
Speaker 3: dead, I just knew that he was hanging from
Speaker 3: the lights.
Speaker 3: The other scene, though, which still holds
Speaker 3: up so well is when the Gremlins in the
Speaker 3: Christmas tree and it attacks Billy's mum.
Speaker 3: That looks so sinister and good man, the
Speaker 3: effects for Gremlins.
Speaker 3: If you haven't watched it for years, guys
Speaker 3: go back and watch it.
Speaker 3: Just marvel at the effects work on that
Speaker 3: movie.
Speaker 3: It still holds up incredibly well.
Speaker 3: Gizmo looks like a real little creature,
Speaker 3: you know, and okay, you might be able to
Speaker 3: figure out where puppets were, puppeteers
Speaker 3: were hiding and things like that.
Speaker 3: But my god, that film holds up so well and
Speaker 3: it's so much fun as well.
Speaker 1: I turned up to Sarah's house Christmas day
Speaker 1: evening after I'd been cooking and with the
Speaker 1: kids and stuff and I turned up there and
Speaker 1: they were playing board games and watching
Speaker 1: Gremlins 2.
Speaker 3: Gremlins 2 so.
Speaker 1: I kind of sat there and watching Gremlins 2
Speaker 1: in the background while they were playing
Speaker 1: Monopoly for hours and hours.
Speaker 3: Monopoly.
Speaker 3: You sounded like Ali McMinn then.
Speaker 1: Monopoly.
Speaker 3: Mr McClane, would you like to be the top
Speaker 3: hat if we play Monopoly?
Speaker 1: Mr McClane, should we play Monopoly?
Speaker 3: Elliot is a piece of shit.
Speaker 3: Just a very quick side note.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sarah, I could hear her come out.
Speaker 1: And what a dick, because it is a he'm
Speaker 1: trying to.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's waiting.
Speaker 1: He's trying to say the show him a watch,
Speaker 1: show him a watch.
Speaker 3: Hans Booby.
Speaker 3: Honestly, I know he's fairly innocent but
Speaker 3: when he gets blown away.
Speaker 3: When he gets blown away, I'm always like
Speaker 3: yeah.
Speaker 1: Ah, it's just like what fucking coke adult
Speaker 1: forts did they make him go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got, I could it.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna give?
Speaker 1: How are you gonna just go?
Speaker 1: Bruce Whisk could go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, don't know you, I'll
Speaker 1: finish, I'll come back down.
Speaker 3: Insane.
Speaker 3: Why, alice?
Speaker 3: Who do you hate more, alice from Die Hard
Speaker 3: or Walter Peck from Ghostbusters, who is
Speaker 3: also in Die Hard in a different character?
Speaker 1: Oh shit, that's a good combo.
Speaker 1: I thought you could say that, franklin,
Speaker 1: there's almost.
Speaker 3: No, no, no no, no, no, these two these two
Speaker 3: are like these two are like Walter Peck,
Speaker 3: because they're like little weasels that
Speaker 3: get under your skin.
Speaker 1: No, I don't like Walter Peck, and I'm not
Speaker 1: speaking of Walter Peck as for Ghostbusters,
Speaker 1: because he's not like one either, but I
Speaker 1: mean in this because he's in Die Hard 2 as
Speaker 1: well and not that good Does.
Speaker 1: Holly Does Holly any other Die Hards did he.
Speaker 3: I don't think he did.
Speaker 3: Did Holly punch him at the end of Die Hard
Speaker 3: she does, doesn't she?
Speaker 1: It ended with the first one, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she knocked out good.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad that he got punched and I'm
Speaker 3: glad that Alice got killed.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, Good to meet her.
Speaker 1: They think Bruce Willis is is mental.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the name of what he has,
Speaker 1: but they think it actually was from an
Speaker 1: accident on a film set.
Speaker 3: actually, they're thinking it's a form of
Speaker 3: dementia.
Speaker 1: I think it's a film set in the 90s where he
Speaker 1: had an accident in his head or something.
Speaker 3: And this, he's basically lost the ability
Speaker 3: to communicate.
Speaker 1: Now but he still knows what's going on, ish.
Speaker 3: But this explains why and we've really gone,
Speaker 3: been mean about it but we didn't know.
Speaker 3: But over the last sort of 10 years, his
Speaker 3: career is him picking up little tiny
Speaker 3: snippets here and there, you know, and he
Speaker 3: it's because he, I should imagine he was
Speaker 3: struggling to remember some of his lines.
Speaker 3: He didn't know it though at the time, you
Speaker 3: know, we all just assumed he's been.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's found in another performance.
Speaker 3: He's being lazy, but actually so I wonder
Speaker 3: what Kevin Smith, who famously really
Speaker 3: ragged on him when they made that cop movie
Speaker 3: together, I wonder what he thinks of,
Speaker 3: because I know he'd heard, yeah, which I
Speaker 3: quite enjoyed Coppa to be honest, but
Speaker 3: actually no, because I listen to.
Speaker 1: One of the first podcasts I ever listened
Speaker 1: to literally was a Kevin Smith one
Speaker 1: interviewing the dude who made Looper, ryan
Speaker 1: Johnson.
Speaker 1: Yep, and he worked with Bruce Willis and,
Speaker 1: um, oh, was it him or someone else?
Speaker 1: It was the first time filmmaker and they
Speaker 1: worked Bruce Willis and they were really
Speaker 1: good and he was was like what he was good
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it's fucking amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, I know Shyamalan and him, get on with
Speaker 3: him as well.
Speaker 1: Well, apparently it used to be that Bruce
Speaker 1: would be quite good with first time
Speaker 1: directors for some reason, like really
Speaker 1: championing them like first time filmmakers,
Speaker 1: but then something like Kevin Smith, I
Speaker 1: don't know but it's weird that he was quite
Speaker 1: friendly with Die Hard 4 and that's when he
Speaker 1: met.
Speaker 3: Well, I think I was talking to my dad on
Speaker 3: the phone the other night about Die Hard as
Speaker 3: you do, and I said to him, like hands down,
Speaker 3: that's the Bruce's best performance and
Speaker 3: people might think of it as a dumb action
Speaker 3: film, but it's so much more to it than that
Speaker 3: it's not.
Speaker 3: I well I know that's what I'm saying like
Speaker 3: people think of that film as an action film,
Speaker 3: but and it is an action film, but there is
Speaker 3: so much to it, it's layered and the story
Speaker 3: and, like I say, bruce's performance is
Speaker 3: phenomenal in that, um, but Die Hard is
Speaker 3: definitely my, my top five for.
Speaker 1: Chris, I had to sort of.
Speaker 1: I couldn't help it.
Speaker 1: I had to do it again with Sarah.
Speaker 1: I took a reminisce over my sneaking onto
Speaker 1: Nakatomi Plaza and being right in front of
Speaker 1: the glass door, standing there and going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, oh my god, because I'd just gone
Speaker 1: through some back door up.
Speaker 1: Some fucking thing just snuck on there.
Speaker 1: Then the guards came out and I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're used to their guns.
Speaker 1: No, they weren't used to the fact that I
Speaker 1: was there.
Speaker 1: They're like how the fuck did you get up
Speaker 1: here, that door?
Speaker 3: A similar thing happened when I went into
Speaker 3: the library from Ghostbusters when I was in
Speaker 3: New York and I walked into the library and
Speaker 3: I said Alice didn't really get it.
Speaker 3: But I was like, oh my god, oh my god, this
Speaker 3: is where they see the, the, the ghost and
Speaker 3: the lady.
Speaker 3: Are you, alice, menstruating right now?
Speaker 3: I said your name's Alice too.
Speaker 3: This is brilliant.
Speaker 3: And then I looked around and there was
Speaker 3: literally about 10 other bloke saying
Speaker 3: pretty much the same thing to their wife or
Speaker 3: friend.
Speaker 3: Who was just, and I thought, oh, everyone
Speaker 3: comes here and says this is the library
Speaker 3: from Ghostbusters.
Speaker 1: I've got a friend who's in New York right
Speaker 1: now and this morning he put our picture of
Speaker 1: him standing in front of the Ghostbusters
Speaker 1: place.
Speaker 3: There we go there we go Christmas,
Speaker 3: christmas, christmas.
Speaker 1: But Die Hard 5 I actually quite like, just
Speaker 1: very quickly, and I put it off for many
Speaker 1: years and started watching it and I was
Speaker 1: like this is such shit.
Speaker 1: I watched it one day thinking it's gonna be
Speaker 1: shit, kind of enjoying it.
Speaker 1: It's really weird.
Speaker 1: It's completely not a Die Hard movie,
Speaker 1: though I've seen it once You've got to like
Speaker 1: take that out of it.
Speaker 1: It's just an action film.
Speaker 3: For me, one, two and three are great, and
Speaker 3: three is like, not amazing, but it's still
Speaker 3: good.
Speaker 1: Samuel Jackson as a team cop buddy type.
Speaker 3: The reason it's fun is because originally
Speaker 3: it was a lethal weapon script and then they
Speaker 3: flipped it.
Speaker 3: You can tell that the dynamic between them
Speaker 3: is very rigged and murder.
Speaker 1: That could have been a lethal weapon movie,
Speaker 1: then why didn't they just make it?
Speaker 3: Because I can't remember what happened
Speaker 3: there.
Speaker 3: I think they thought they weren't going to
Speaker 3: make any more lethal weapons.
Speaker 1: Are they still making a new one though?
Speaker 3: Apparently, apparently.
Speaker 3: They better hurry up.
Speaker 1: We've got Beverly Hillscott next year.
Speaker 3: Did you see the trailer?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: it looks right.
Speaker 3: The chemistry looks great still between
Speaker 3: them and the fucking I'm not expecting to
Speaker 3: be amazing because I keep getting
Speaker 3: disappointed by the NGA Jones or whatnot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anyway should we get into Christmasy stuff
Speaker 1: or whatever?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, before we get into what we're
Speaker 3: going to do next, guys, we're going to take
Speaker 3: a break and then we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: 10 years of podcasting.
Speaker 3: So, for anybody who hasn't been with us
Speaker 3: from the beginning, we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about some of our favorite episodes,
Speaker 3: moments, memories.
Speaker 3: We're going to talk about the highs and the
Speaker 3: lows.
Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about our lives
Speaker 3: and how they've kind of changed in 10 years,
Speaker 3: because a lot happens in 10 years.
Speaker 3: It's not, you know, it's a long time, it's
Speaker 3: a decade.
Speaker 3: The last thing I wanted to mention is a bit
Speaker 3: of a bar humbug, which is I took my
Speaker 3: children out on we're recording this just
Speaker 3: after Christmas Day, and I took my children
Speaker 3: out to a restaurant on Christmas Day which
Speaker 3: I've never, ever been out.
Speaker 3: So I've been to a pub once for a beer on
Speaker 3: Christmas Day, but I've never eaten food
Speaker 3: out in a restaurant on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: But because we've got two two-year-olds and
Speaker 3: it's already hectic, we just decided that's
Speaker 3: about the bullet this year, let's do it.
Speaker 3: So we went out, we booked in, got there um
Speaker 3: about 12 o'clock, had three courses each.
Speaker 3: The kids really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: You know, daddy, yes, christmas, they keep
Speaker 3: shouting they love their custard and
Speaker 3: they're pudding.
Speaker 3: We had a great time the last sort of 10
Speaker 3: minutes of it.
Speaker 3: They were so full of sugar and they were
Speaker 3: running up and down, waving all the old
Speaker 3: people in there and oh, it was lovely and
Speaker 3: um it just we just had.
Speaker 3: We just came away with a really good
Speaker 3: feeling.
Speaker 3: So my wife logged in to TripAdvisor the
Speaker 3: following day to leave them a lovely review.
Speaker 3: However, before she could leave a review,
Speaker 3: somebody had put in a review which is
Speaker 3: essentially complaining about me and my
Speaker 3: family.
Speaker 3: They said, um, their Christmas experience
Speaker 3: was ruined by a couple of screeching
Speaker 3: children, not laughing or giggling or
Speaker 3: saying Merry Christmas and waving
Speaker 3: screeching children.
Speaker 3: Um, and they said, we were there with our
Speaker 3: grandmother who'd lost her husband only a
Speaker 3: few months before and it was going to be
Speaker 3: her first Christmas without him and because
Speaker 3: of these children our experience was ruined.
Speaker 3: But the food was nice and the parking was
Speaker 3: okay.
Speaker 3: They put at the end, but I don't know what
Speaker 3: to say.
Speaker 3: I mean me and Gav talked about this off
Speaker 3: fair and people are always going to say
Speaker 3: things about your kids and you're going to
Speaker 3: get offended.
Speaker 3: But maybe if, if your grandma's grieving a
Speaker 3: little bit, just don't take her out to a
Speaker 3: restaurant full of people who are going to
Speaker 3: be a bit merry and bright, because it was
Speaker 3: full of drunk blokes stood at the bar
Speaker 3: singing um the pokes fairies held in New
Speaker 3: York.
Speaker 3: They didn't complain about them.
Speaker 3: No, of course.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like the cinema.
Speaker 1: I understand when people don't want kids to
Speaker 1: cinema.
Speaker 1: So that's why you do actually have 18 over
Speaker 1: cinema for movies which aren't 18, even if
Speaker 1: they're 15, so younger kids can't go in.
Speaker 1: So maybe, like, if you're doing that, find
Speaker 1: a restaurant which is like going like we're
Speaker 1: not taking kids.
Speaker 1: I don't know what restaurant would do that
Speaker 1: because they'd get fucking social media out.
Speaker 3: But also, this wasn't a fancy restaurant.
Speaker 3: It was like a bar and sizzle grill, which
Speaker 3: is like a chain of really like in the UK
Speaker 3: yeah, yeah, we had the works, but um, they.
Speaker 3: It's not like a fancy restaurant, it's just
Speaker 3: like a pub that also serves food.
Speaker 3: We wanted to keep it cheap and cheerful.
Speaker 3: Still costs us 150 quid for the four of us.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, man, some people, you
Speaker 3: know, I get, if you're dealing with grief,
Speaker 3: I get.
Speaker 3: You might sort of say stuff.
Speaker 3: But I just thought I look back now and I
Speaker 3: laugh a few days later.
Speaker 3: But at the time I was quite cross and quite
Speaker 3: upset.
Speaker 3: But now I just think, well, if you can't
Speaker 3: enjoy, if you can't see a couple of
Speaker 3: two-year-olds enjoying their Christmas day,
Speaker 3: then I feel a bit sorry for you really at
Speaker 3: the end of the day.
Speaker 3: But I just thought I'd mention that because
Speaker 3: it's quite funny.
Speaker 1: And now I just always have it.
Speaker 1: When I was out there, there'd always be
Speaker 1: someone, because my, my three are fucking
Speaker 1: out of control at times.
Speaker 1: Feral children just fucking like I've got
Speaker 1: no chance.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I've had it before.
Speaker 1: People tell me can you control your
Speaker 1: children?
Speaker 1: And just the looks that people give it,
Speaker 1: just like fuck off.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds shit.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm not me saying fuck off there, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give a fuck about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, for those of you, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: feel like they're screaming.
Speaker 1: That's annoying, but it's fuck.
Speaker 1: We're all living the same plan out.
Speaker 3: I can't fucking help you.
Speaker 3: Let's, let's be kind.
Speaker 3: I think let let listen, guys probably take
Speaker 3: a break.
Speaker 3: Let's leave that there.
Speaker 3: Let's say let's be kind and remember at
Speaker 3: Christmas, just try and be even a little
Speaker 3: bit more kinder.
Speaker 2: Really um we've all got a liver together
Speaker 2: yeah, if not, then fuck off, take your
Speaker 2: granny somewhere else if she's a bit sad.
Speaker 3: Anyway, look, let's take a break, and then
Speaker 3: we'll go down memory lane and talk about 10
Speaker 3: years of fucking podcast.
Speaker 3: And what was that?
Speaker 1: Halloween theme for free.
Speaker 1: Halloween free boop boop, boop boop.
Speaker 1: Did I all right back in a minute.
Speaker 1: Ho ho, ho, we're back again, we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back.
Speaker 3: So, gav, again, happy anniversary.
Speaker 3: Ten years, crazy, crazy, crazy.
Speaker 3: I thought what we could do would be fun now
Speaker 3: to talk and get real and talk about
Speaker 3: podcasting, but also, like ten years.
Speaker 3: Ten years is a long time.
Speaker 3: We've been friends a lot longer than that,
Speaker 3: but, yeah, crazy times.
Speaker 3: We've both been through ups and downs and
Speaker 3: we've also reviewed some shit films and
Speaker 3: some great films.
Speaker 3: So let's jump in, jump into the mix really
Speaker 3: and talk about it.
Speaker 3: Where do you want to start off?
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about episodes?
Speaker 3: Do you want to talk about life?
Speaker 3: What do you want to do?
Speaker 1: I don't know you lead it.
Speaker 3: Alright, I'll lead it, okay.
Speaker 3: Well, ten years, Ten years ago, both very
Speaker 3: different.
Speaker 1: We recorded our first episode, and then
Speaker 1: what?
Speaker 3: Dimper's record.
Speaker 1: No, we didn't.
Speaker 3: Not to do it again.
Speaker 3: We did Because it's too drunk.
Speaker 3: I wasn't a married man ten years ago either.
Speaker 3: Obviously I am now.
Speaker 3: I'm still with Alice, but I also become a
Speaker 3: dad in that time as well.
Speaker 1: I don't think I was a married man.
Speaker 3: You were a married man.
Speaker 1: We've switched roles, yeah well technically
Speaker 1: Still converse, but yeah, not really.
Speaker 3: Separated from your ex-nate.
Speaker 3: But you've got the lovely Sarah now in your
Speaker 3: life, which is awesome, fantastic.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 3: Hello, sarah, merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Shit, oh, she just got in there.
Speaker 1: She's had a do-mary Christmas.
Speaker 3: Fuck off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got some kids now as well, which
Speaker 3: is crazy.
Speaker 3: Your kids are grown-up man, because
Speaker 3: 16-year-old now a 14-year-old.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nine-year-old ten this year.
Speaker 3: I mean, you only had two children when we
Speaker 3: started podcasting.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Which is nuts, and the oldest was six at
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: Oh shit, yeah.
Speaker 3: Can you I mean, this is what I'm saying
Speaker 3: like ten years, is it?
Speaker 1: To be fair, it won't be that long until
Speaker 1: they're 17.
Speaker 1: So it's just like what the fuck Nuts.
Speaker 3: Absolutely nuts, and we've taken a few
Speaker 3: high-atices here and there, you know.
Speaker 1: No, that's good then, because that's only a
Speaker 1: year Now.
Speaker 1: Kick them out the door 18.
Speaker 1: Off you go.
Speaker 3: Get at it, fuck off.
Speaker 3: I want to see that.
Speaker 3: I want to see what you do with that.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm going to do that to my
Speaker 1: autistic child.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that'll go well.
Speaker 3: We've taken a few high-atices here and
Speaker 3: there because life throws you curveballs,
Speaker 3: like we said, and Galf separated from his
Speaker 3: ex.
Speaker 3: But you know, for the best really, and you
Speaker 3: find Sarah now and you know I had some
Speaker 3: stuff I dealt with as well.
Speaker 3: I lost my mum and got married six days
Speaker 3: later, which is a bit of a rollercoaster
Speaker 3: for me really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was insane and that was the last
Speaker 1: time I was proper drunk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got married six days later and
Speaker 3: then we celebrated being married for a few
Speaker 3: months and then the fucking world shut down
Speaker 3: for the pandemic.
Speaker 3: So my brain lost it at that point.
Speaker 1: Didn't we podcast quite a lot in pandemic
Speaker 1: because we were in the house going.
Speaker 1: Should we podcast?
Speaker 3: Probably two episodes a month.
Speaker 3: I'd say we were doing then.
Speaker 1: Yeah, two, you're squeezing to three quite
Speaker 1: properly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were doing a lot.
Speaker 3: I think everybody was doing a lot more
Speaker 3: content, weren't they?
Speaker 3: During the pandemic.
Speaker 1: There's some parts of the pandemic I kind
Speaker 1: of liked I've got.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 1: There's parts when I was up in my little
Speaker 1: loft because, honestly, I had a little room
Speaker 1: in the loft and I was just making a little
Speaker 1: miniature house out of foam.
Speaker 1: I just got nothing to do.
Speaker 3: And that's why 10 years the last 10 years
Speaker 3: has probably felt quicker, because three
Speaker 3: years of that, a good two of those, was the
Speaker 3: pandemic really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, 20.
Speaker 1: To 22.
Speaker 1: And then after that the first spouts of
Speaker 1: years are coming back.
Speaker 1: Obviously we're only 23,.
Speaker 1: Going into 2024 soon.
Speaker 1: It was sped along but all of a sudden now I
Speaker 1: feel like it's kind of slowed again.
Speaker 1: I don't know why if anyone else but I feel
Speaker 1: like it's slowed down again.
Speaker 1: But when we came out of it it was just like
Speaker 1: go, go, go.
Speaker 1: It's like ah, it's foam, go, go, go.
Speaker 1: So weird, weird, fucking time.
Speaker 3: It's been crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm a dad now, which still wrapping
Speaker 3: my head around it still feels very new to
Speaker 3: me, but also I feel like they've always
Speaker 3: been here, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny because you keep obviously
Speaker 1: saying bits and bobs.
Speaker 1: It's just stuff like you're learning and as
Speaker 1: you're, because you grow with your kids,
Speaker 1: because you're growing as a every day,
Speaker 1: you're a parent for the first time of that
Speaker 1: kid of that age, yeah, so you're always
Speaker 1: learning stuff.
Speaker 1: It's funny because you're always coming on
Speaker 1: stuff and it's not funny because I was
Speaker 1: there 10 years ago doing all that shit.
Speaker 1: No longer than that you know so it's funny
Speaker 1: seeing it here and it from you now.
Speaker 3: And now I'm seeing friends start having
Speaker 3: children and they're asking me advice.
Speaker 3: And I never give out advice, and if
Speaker 3: somebody asks me something I'll tell them
Speaker 3: how I dealt with it or something.
Speaker 3: But everybody's journey is different.
Speaker 1: As a parent, look what funny it is for me
Speaker 1: now, as I'm completely thrown from it now,
Speaker 1: if I could change an app.
Speaker 1: You know the problem because it comes up
Speaker 1: memory.
Speaker 1: You know muscle memory sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So I could do that.
Speaker 1: But there's other stuff I can't remember.
Speaker 1: It's so long ago now, being a dad.
Speaker 3: Well, the thing is even for me my time is
Speaker 3: gone you know, even for me with two, two
Speaker 3: and a half year olds, I don't remember
Speaker 3: those first few months because you're so
Speaker 3: tired.
Speaker 3: It's such a blur Like.
Speaker 3: My brother has recently become a dad, his
Speaker 3: first child and whenever he hands me his
Speaker 3: baby I'm like how do I hold it again?
Speaker 3: He's like you've got two.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, but I don't know, I've got
Speaker 1: that stuff I could do really well, but
Speaker 1: there's some stuff I'm like oh, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong, I can hold a baby, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: drop it.
Speaker 3: But also you kind of like, you forget that
Speaker 3: you had to do all this stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, you think how do we get through
Speaker 3: all this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, now, I had a baby last year.
Speaker 1: I think it was Last year or two years ago.
Speaker 3: I was like you, had a baby last year.
Speaker 3: Held a baby?
Speaker 3: Oh right, thank you.
Speaker 1: And it was funny holding a baby again.
Speaker 1: But I always start to the point where it's
Speaker 1: straight away and a neighbor kind of
Speaker 1: comforted the baby.
Speaker 1: So yeah, if I can hold on to this, no
Speaker 1: worries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like holding my brother's baby,
Speaker 3: because what's great is he just kind of
Speaker 3: lies there and then I look at him and he
Speaker 3: doesn't really do a lot.
Speaker 3: He doesn't give me any back, talk or ask
Speaker 3: for a biscuit, and then I can just hand him
Speaker 3: back to my brother and say he's done a shit.
Speaker 3: You need to change him, not me.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that happened as well.
Speaker 3: Lots of stuff, really, and also we, you
Speaker 3: know deadbolt films.
Speaker 3: We've done a lot in the last 10 years.
Speaker 3: You know, slightly outside of the 10 years.
Speaker 3: We made Shadow of Death, which Gav is just
Speaker 3: hit just hit Vipko, hasn't it?
Speaker 3: Oh, whoa it's hit, it's hit.
Speaker 1: It's on Amazon now for Rent and Buy, which
Speaker 1: is fucking kind of an achievement.
Speaker 1: I was actually for the first time ever, I
Speaker 1: looked at the Amazon Prime and add the
Speaker 1: whole thing rating and the characters in
Speaker 1: the background and I was proud of myself.
Speaker 1: For the first time ever, I was proud of
Speaker 1: myself.
Speaker 3: I looked at it last night and that's the
Speaker 3: trailer place.
Speaker 3: While you're reading it you're like wow,
Speaker 3: and it seemed myself in that trailer, you
Speaker 3: know, and I was thinking this is weird that
Speaker 3: Prime, although Pret-o-Natural, another of
Speaker 3: our pictures is it not on Prime anymore.
Speaker 1: No, it's actually free on YouTube via the
Speaker 1: actual company or Plex.
Speaker 1: Okay cool.
Speaker 1: Actually no, I think you could probably
Speaker 1: still rent it on Amazon, but I'm just
Speaker 1: giving you the cheat codes.
Speaker 3: We've done a ton of shorts as well, Most
Speaker 3: recently, of course, Star Wars, Sanctuary
Speaker 3: Moon, which we're very proud of.
Speaker 3: So sorry, Star Wars, Sanctuary Moon, which
Speaker 3: we're very proud of.
Speaker 3: It was an amazing experience filming that
Speaker 3: and getting to be part of that.
Speaker 3: Sadly, we'd be remiss to not mention our
Speaker 3: buddy Boz, who we lost shortly after that
Speaker 3: and he sadly never got to see it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, fellow podcaster, Some of you
Speaker 3: guys will know Boz from his show, the
Speaker 3: Little Pod of Horrors.
Speaker 3: So that's a sad moment.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no Guided you never see the Star
Speaker 1: Wars film so Guided.
Speaker 1: For that reason, you know, just I don't
Speaker 1: know.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, but it's one of those
Speaker 3: things, but yeah it did really well with
Speaker 3: Deadbolt films over the years.
Speaker 1: It was just this little.
Speaker 1: I just literally called it Deadbolt because
Speaker 1: Peter Jackson had winged up.
Speaker 3: I remember the conversation with you and
Speaker 3: you said that and I said, well, I like that,
Speaker 3: that's fine, okay cool yeah, I remember
Speaker 3: sitting in your living room with you while
Speaker 3: we were working on this, our second well,
Speaker 3: your second and my first script, because we
Speaker 3: banged out a few scripts in the early days.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been very productive year.
Speaker 3: You know, at 10 years, not year, you know
Speaker 3: to the point that we've done almost 150
Speaker 3: episodes, probably have done 150 if you
Speaker 3: count all the little bonus snippets and
Speaker 3: Fright Vests and all the little bits we've
Speaker 3: done as well, done a few Fright Vests as
Speaker 3: well over the years.
Speaker 3: Well, I thought what would be fun to do.
Speaker 1: I've even interviewed Richard Brake one of
Speaker 1: the first ones actual legit people.
Speaker 3: Do you remember when we got messaging Tom
Speaker 3: Holland for a while of Psycho?
Speaker 3: Well, charter Wave no yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and his assistant kept saying yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah, yeah, we just need a date, we just
Speaker 3: need a date.
Speaker 1: He never got back or forth.
Speaker 1: No, yeah, he sent me a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Have Merry Christmas to me.
Speaker 1: Oh, christmas day, that was about it.
Speaker 1: It's just, I think he wanted to do it, but
Speaker 1: then he was trying to get through to
Speaker 1: whoever's organizing it and it was just
Speaker 1: like, can't we just sort it out?
Speaker 1: And, yeah, it didn't work.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we don't really have people on the
Speaker 1: show often, very rarely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had a few guests in the 10
Speaker 3: years some fellow podcasters like Kate, and
Speaker 3: some of our friends like Andy and John.
Speaker 1: Yeah, early years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're just fucking now.
Speaker 1: Just put the microphone in the room and we
Speaker 1: all sit in the room.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, so bad.
Speaker 3: It is difficult just to sometimes organize
Speaker 3: our own lives around getting a show
Speaker 3: recorded though, which is why sometimes
Speaker 3: there are delays, but we appreciate that
Speaker 3: you guys still support and listen.
Speaker 3: I mean, if anybody wants to know the way
Speaker 3: that we work is, I'll come up with the
Speaker 3: theme of the episode.
Speaker 3: Really, I'll check with Gav that he's happy
Speaker 3: with that, and Gav always gives me I want
Speaker 3: to cover this film, so I put it on the list
Speaker 3: and I usually try and pair up a couple of
Speaker 3: similar films.
Speaker 3: The way it works is we plan a date that
Speaker 3: we're gonna record and then, about a week
Speaker 3: before that date, we'll both watch the
Speaker 3: films, make the notes for that film, and
Speaker 3: then I'll take an evening to write all the
Speaker 3: extra segments like notes for the intro and
Speaker 3: outro.
Speaker 3: I'll do my research for World of the
Speaker 3: Strange.
Speaker 3: If we're doing a time team segment, which
Speaker 3: we used to do on every episode, I also need
Speaker 3: to do a ton of research on that and we put
Speaker 3: it all together, and then on that night we
Speaker 3: get together, we press record and we just
Speaker 3: go for it, take those breaks, like I say,
Speaker 3: and we actually record it linearly as well.
Speaker 3: So we record the outro, we record.
Speaker 3: Occasionally we have to break it up,
Speaker 3: perhaps, but we try and record it in the
Speaker 3: order that we're gonna put it out there, so
Speaker 3: that the editing from Gab's side is much,
Speaker 3: much easier.
Speaker 3: All he needs to do is chuck the music in
Speaker 3: and slip a few bits here and there.
Speaker 1: I just generally need to chop the nose and
Speaker 1: tails, the heads and tails.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then we will.
Speaker 3: I'll write up a little piece that Gab will
Speaker 3: then attach to it and it goes up online for
Speaker 3: everybody to yeah, I have to obviously pull
Speaker 3: the trailers and the audio for that.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that was a little thing.
Speaker 1: I have to put all the sound to fit with the
Speaker 1: length of our talks, conversations, but
Speaker 1: actually I've got it down to a T now where
Speaker 1: it's not too much work on my end actually
Speaker 1: and I can have it edited within the hour.
Speaker 3: And we've said it a billion times, but
Speaker 3: we'll say it again we both love doing this.
Speaker 3: We do this even if no one else is listening
Speaker 3: We've got patrons but we do it even if we
Speaker 3: didn't, because it is a little bit of
Speaker 3: therapy for both of us.
Speaker 3: We're friends.
Speaker 3: Obviously, we get together, we shoot the
Speaker 3: shit, we catch up.
Speaker 3: We always catch up a bit before we hit
Speaker 3: record, but we do a lot of our catching up
Speaker 3: while we're recording as well.
Speaker 3: We save funny stories and anecdotes for
Speaker 3: while we're recording because we love
Speaker 3: seeing each other's reactions to these
Speaker 3: things, you know, and we love doing that,
Speaker 3: and I'm just really thankful that we
Speaker 3: created this in a hotel room in Wales one
Speaker 3: night, which is a bit weird, but we did
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 3: We were working together away and Talked
Speaker 3: about something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we led in our single beds next to
Speaker 3: each other chatting and you said we should
Speaker 3: be recording this.
Speaker 3: Then we started.
Speaker 3: We just said to Sidere that we would.
Speaker 3: Yeah, famously didn't hit record on that
Speaker 3: first ever session.
Speaker 3: But let's talk about what films that we've
Speaker 3: covered and just to jog some of our
Speaker 3: memories and get a little bit of a
Speaker 3: discussion going around some of our
Speaker 3: favourite things and some of our not so
Speaker 3: favourite things.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to talk to you about some of
Speaker 3: that.
Speaker 3: So, gav, I thought I'd start off with just
Speaker 3: reminding you some of the movies we've
Speaker 3: covered, because we have a birthday episode
Speaker 3: each every year where the birthday boy gets
Speaker 3: to pick the movie.
Speaker 3: So, gav, some of the ones that you've
Speaker 3: picked over the years Dark Knight of the
Speaker 3: Scarecrow from 1981, you were really
Speaker 3: excited for us to cover that.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, though I can't remember
Speaker 1: it.
Speaker 3: really, you made us watch the Burbs, which
Speaker 3: I will watch anytime.
Speaker 3: I didn't make you watch the Burbs, that's
Speaker 3: for sure yeah we love it.
Speaker 3: The Lost Boys Fright Night.
Speaker 3: This is my choices, these are your choices,
Speaker 3: yeah.
Speaker 1: Lost Boys and Fright Night.
Speaker 1: It's a birthday, OK.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you also picked for your Tarantino
Speaker 3: birthday.
Speaker 3: You picked the Sorry, not Tarantino, but
Speaker 3: Snowy.
Speaker 3: You picked the Thing and the Hateful Eight
Speaker 3: great combo.
Speaker 1: Did we do the Thing and the Hateful Eight
Speaker 1: together?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what year was that?
Speaker 3: It was our third year of podcasting.
Speaker 1: See, that's the thing, though If you go
Speaker 1: back now, the audio's probably like good.
Speaker 1: We almost need to do fresh reviews of these
Speaker 1: things.
Speaker 1: Mm.
Speaker 3: You know, the following year you picked
Speaker 3: Silver Bullet and the Howling.
Speaker 1: I guess if we ever get to a point maybe we
Speaker 1: could cover it.
Speaker 1: We could do that, but that's not going to
Speaker 1: happen.
Speaker 1: I suppose Silver Bullet and the Howling I
Speaker 1: didn't want to pick the Howling you would
Speaker 1: have must have put that in there, because
Speaker 1: I'm not Howling's alright.
Speaker 3: No, no, you would have picked it.
Speaker 3: I never, I always let you pick the real
Speaker 3: thing.
Speaker 1: That's not a weird thing because I'm like
Speaker 1: Howling that's alright.
Speaker 1: So strange that I picked that rather than
Speaker 1: the Marquardt from London.
Speaker 1: Well, we covered that separately I think
Speaker 1: yeah, I know, we did yeah.
Speaker 3: Did a commentary you also the following
Speaker 3: year.
Speaker 3: You picked to support and sort of discuss
Speaker 3: mental health.
Speaker 3: You picked First Blood and Session 9.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the first episodes.
Speaker 1: That was a hair of the episodes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, my favourite birthday episode
Speaker 3: was the following year, where you picked
Speaker 3: the Deadpool and Tend to Midnight, because,
Speaker 3: my God, I had such fun with those two.
Speaker 1: It's for jacking off.
Speaker 3: So much fun.
Speaker 3: If anybody who hasn't seen Tend to Midnight
Speaker 3: with Charles Bronson from 1983, get and
Speaker 3: watch it.
Speaker 3: It is good.
Speaker 3: And the Deadpool definitely, definitely my
Speaker 3: favourite of the Dirty Harry films, I've
Speaker 3: got to say is my favourite of them.
Speaker 1: And it gets dissed, though, and it's like I
Speaker 1: don't think you guys are looking at it
Speaker 1: properly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There's a funness to it which is not in the
Speaker 1: other films.
Speaker 1: It is a different movie from the others.
Speaker 3: And the following year you got Very British
Speaker 3: with us.
Speaker 3: We did what a Carve Up with the Carrion
Speaker 3: team and you paired that up with the House
Speaker 3: in Nightmare Park, Nice, Frankie Howard.
Speaker 1: I definitely picked that.
Speaker 3: That episode with those two films has got
Speaker 3: you written all over it, your cheeky,
Speaker 3: insensitive humour, oh yeah.
Speaker 3: And then last year we did the Relic and the
Speaker 3: Horror Express.
Speaker 3: Horror on a train no, not horror on a train,
Speaker 3: but creatures sort of.
Speaker 1: You could see, as the years have gone, I've
Speaker 1: got more like ooh and I've slowly thought
Speaker 1: about it and picked up good parents, you
Speaker 1: know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: Well, I love it, and obviously our next
Speaker 3: episode will be well, not our next, but the
Speaker 3: one after will be your birthday and you've
Speaker 3: picked Sorcerer William Friedkin and Studio
Speaker 3: 666.
Speaker 3: So we'll be covering that in a couple of
Speaker 3: months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you're still a strange one for
Speaker 1: it.
Speaker 1: But I want to just say fun, because it's
Speaker 1: quite modern compared to Sorcer, which is
Speaker 1: not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think when it's your birthday
Speaker 3: episode, you can go crazy.
Speaker 1: I just want something fun to go over that
Speaker 1: film.
Speaker 3: So that moves on to me then.
Speaker 3: So my first birthday episode I picked
Speaker 3: Alligator and Brain Dead.
Speaker 3: Wow, brain Dead.
Speaker 1: I can't even remember doing talking about
Speaker 1: Brain Dead.
Speaker 1: I remember talking about Alligator, because
Speaker 1: I pronounced the name wrong and Beau
Speaker 1: messaged us to say it.
Speaker 1: I pronounced it Robert Forrester Forrester.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: Robert Forrester Forrester, but he would
Speaker 1: pronounce it wrong.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I can remember that
Speaker 1: the following year I picked Psycho.
Speaker 3: It's a great movie and I paired that up
Speaker 3: with, randomly, jason Six, because it's my
Speaker 3: favourite of the Jason franchise.
Speaker 3: Obviously, that's what's banning in the
Speaker 3: works, because we're now currently annually
Speaker 3: reviewing the Jason movies every summer.
Speaker 3: But Kill kill, kill kill, but yeah whatever.
Speaker 3: The following year I did oh, this was a
Speaker 3: good year.
Speaker 3: One of my favourite birthday episodes I
Speaker 3: picked the Fly and the Monster Squad Great,
Speaker 3: great couple of movies.
Speaker 1: And I remember doing that because I now
Speaker 1: have to fly in Blu-ray randomly and it's
Speaker 1: body horror.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why you're a bit apprehensive
Speaker 3: of that one.
Speaker 1: I find body horror yuck, I don't like it.
Speaker 1: But I remember doing that as a review and
Speaker 1: you really enjoying reviewing it because I
Speaker 1: was looking at it for a review, as always,
Speaker 1: of the film and it came across differently
Speaker 1: and really more appreciate.
Speaker 1: More an intellectual look at it, I guess.
Speaker 3: Possibly my favourite, Cronenberg, I would
Speaker 3: say it's a yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big Cronenberg fan because of the
Speaker 1: body horror, so yeah, probably would be for
Speaker 1: me.
Speaker 1: I suppose I do like a history of violence.
Speaker 1: That's what.
Speaker 3: The following year, I chose two sequels
Speaker 3: that don't always get a lot of love
Speaker 3: Ghostbusters 2 and Psycho 2.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Psycho 2's great, yeah.
Speaker 3: Tom Holland yeah, and Ghostbusters 2 is.
Speaker 3: I love that too, so it's fine.
Speaker 3: After that I got Stephen King the following
Speaker 3: year.
Speaker 3: I did Stand by Me, and Misery Stand by Me
Speaker 3: and Misery.
Speaker 3: Stand by Me and Misery Bastard.
Speaker 3: I don't think you were much of a fan of the
Speaker 3: following year when I made you watch Teen
Speaker 3: Wolf and Labyrinth.
Speaker 1: It's really weird.
Speaker 1: You keep saying these movies and I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting here going.
Speaker 3: Oh, you've got them in town then.
Speaker 1: Actually Daisy's Obsessor is Stand by Me.
Speaker 1: Fucking loves it.
Speaker 3: Have you got a copy of Teen Wolf or
Speaker 3: Labyrinth right there?
Speaker 1: No, I've got a lot of girls' films.
Speaker 3: Not good.
Speaker 1: Bridesmaids and Clueless and stuff.
Speaker 1: Um no.
Speaker 3: After that I got Arnold in the mix.
Speaker 3: Oh, I made us review Total Recoil and the
Speaker 3: Running man, some sci-fi 80s, goodness
Speaker 3: Sweet.
Speaker 3: And then last year or this year, because
Speaker 3: we're still in 2023, we did Happy Birthday
Speaker 3: to Me and April Fool's Day.
Speaker 3: In the flesh I remember recording those sat
Speaker 3: nose to nose with you, oh, really, we were
Speaker 3: together.
Speaker 1: We did, probably didn't rock two Mike Frans,
Speaker 1: did we Still one Mike was it.
Speaker 3: Is this a Beastie Boys quote?
Speaker 3: We were at two Mike's, and we were at two.
Speaker 3: What year was that?
Speaker 3: That was this year.
Speaker 1: This year we were sitting together.
Speaker 1: Oh, so yeah, of course you were around us,
Speaker 1: because we were shooting the Century Moon,
Speaker 1: weren't we?
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Ah, so we would actually have two Mike's.
Speaker 1: That would have sounded proper.
Speaker 3: Indeed, indeed.
Speaker 3: Indeed, we also enjoyed our first year of
Speaker 3: having Patron's Pick movies, patron's Pick.
Speaker 3: So we've had Patron's Pick, patron's Pick.
Speaker 3: We got some Patron supporters a few years
Speaker 3: ago and one of them, matthew Godly, came up
Speaker 3: with a fantastic idea of letting our
Speaker 3: Patrons pick two films for us to review,
Speaker 3: which we've now incorporated into every
Speaker 3: three episodes as a Patron Pick.
Speaker 3: It's a great way, to you know, give them
Speaker 3: something back for supporting us.
Speaker 1: And it's amazing that you all support us.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: I seriously appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a very enthusiastic person when I
Speaker 1: talk, sometimes it comes across possibly,
Speaker 1: but I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: But also we've got to review some absolute
Speaker 3: crazy stuff that we wouldn't normally do.
Speaker 3: So we've had Hansel and Gretel and Bram
Speaker 3: Stoker Stratkula.
Speaker 1: I've loved being able to do some of these
Speaker 1: Patron films because it's like when would
Speaker 1: we do this?
Speaker 3: I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Next episode's fucking banging.
Speaker 3: We've got a couple of good ones coming up
Speaker 3: RJ picked the Land that Time Forgot and All
Speaker 3: Lords of Atlantis for us.
Speaker 3: After that we got into some what do you
Speaker 3: call it?
Speaker 3: Hag exploitation.
Speaker 3: From Jamie.
Speaker 3: She picked whatever happened to Baby Jane
Speaker 3: and Straight Jacket.
Speaker 1: Yes, that was really interesting.
Speaker 3: A really good episode.
Speaker 3: And then after that we got a Poltergeist
Speaker 3: and a Redditory thrown at us which was
Speaker 3: again covering Poltergeist.
Speaker 3: I don't know why we just never covered it,
Speaker 3: but we got to finally do it.
Speaker 3: After that, the legacy and the changeling
Speaker 3: again the changeling is just a phenomenal
Speaker 3: film.
Speaker 3: I don't know why we've never reviewed it.
Speaker 1: And the legacy that was that building that
Speaker 1: I was going to go to.
Speaker 1: I never fucking got to it, it's just a road.
Speaker 3: You developed a bit of a man crush on
Speaker 3: what's his name in that from Roadhouse,
Speaker 3: which kind of a stash, and his sculpted
Speaker 3: buttons Sam Elliott, sam Elliott, yeah.
Speaker 1: He's quite a handsome fella.
Speaker 3: And then I remember Holly after that
Speaker 3: through a couple of curveballs that us
Speaker 3: would sell from 2016,.
Speaker 3: The Stephen King Scribd movie and
Speaker 3: Razorblade Smile.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we covered that, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: It was like an early Matrix vampire British
Speaker 3: thing.
Speaker 3: That was a weird one.
Speaker 3: And then, most recently, rachel is picked
Speaker 3: Mum and Dad and Run to parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was funny seeing that oxy between
Speaker 1: the lines here, right yeah?
Speaker 3: And our next patron pick, which will be our
Speaker 3: next episode.
Speaker 3: We've circled back around, so Matthew has
Speaker 3: selected Deadman Shoes and Flash Gordon, so
Speaker 3: we're definitely going to keep this going
Speaker 3: because it's so much fun getting these
Speaker 3: things thrown at us guys and we really
Speaker 3: appreciate you doing that.
Speaker 3: So start thinking about your second round.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to watch Deadman Shoes and
Speaker 1: Ages, and that is a great film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a dark one.
Speaker 3: I think we might have to do those Deadman
Speaker 3: Shoes first and then finish up with Flash
Speaker 3: Gordon, because I think he'll save every
Speaker 3: one of us.
Speaker 3: Um lastly because it's our.
Speaker 3: Christmas Sorry, Because this is our
Speaker 3: Christmas episode.
Speaker 3: I thought I'd remind us and our listeners
Speaker 3: all of our Christmas shows that we've done
Speaker 3: in the 10 years, so our very first
Speaker 3: Christmas episode that we didn't press
Speaker 3: record for, I mean it's a record.
Speaker 3: The following evening we covered Rare
Speaker 3: Exports, which I talked about earlier, and
Speaker 3: Jack Frost the Killer Snowman, which is
Speaker 3: silly and fun.
Speaker 3: The following year we did Killer Santers,
Speaker 3: we did Santa's Slay and Sint, which you
Speaker 3: watched the other night, didn't you?
Speaker 3: I think you watched Sint the other night,
Speaker 3: no, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I was going to, but I didn't get round to
Speaker 1: it.
Speaker 3: After that we did Black Christmas, the
Speaker 3: classic, and we paired it up with William
Speaker 3: Shatner drinking cocoa in a cardigan in a
Speaker 3: Christmas horror story which I'm a big fan
Speaker 3: of, that one Drinking cocaine.
Speaker 1: William Shatner drinking cocaine.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 3: After that we got quite modern with Better
Speaker 3: Watch Out and we covered the classic Die
Speaker 3: Hard.
Speaker 3: So that was a really good Christmas episode.
Speaker 3: Yeah, after that we did Krampus and
Speaker 3: Gremlins.
Speaker 3: Again, the Christmas keeps on giving,
Speaker 3: doesn't it?
Speaker 3: Then we did that weird movie that you
Speaker 3: picked to follow the year after that called
Speaker 3: Secret Santa, about the family.
Speaker 3: That's punch gets spiked and they all start
Speaker 3: murdering each other.
Speaker 3: That was quite enjoyable, if I remember
Speaker 3: rightly, and we paired that up with the
Speaker 3: classic.
Speaker 3: Is it a Christmas movie?
Speaker 3: Is it not Lethal Weapon?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We figured do you know what it's our show?
Speaker 3: It's our Christmas movie to us.
Speaker 1: What was that first one called?
Speaker 3: Secret Santa 2018.
Speaker 1: I remember when we did Calvair that was
Speaker 1: great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, that was the last year.
Speaker 3: So after that we did Silent Night, deadly
Speaker 3: Night and Scrooge, then we did Die Hard 2
Speaker 3: the year after that with the Wolf of Snow
Speaker 3: Hollow, and then, like you say, last
Speaker 3: Christmas we did Calvair.
Speaker 3: The ordeal which is certainly that, isn't
Speaker 3: it Gaff?
Speaker 1: It is an ordeal.
Speaker 1: The only movie I've seen, sarah Look Away
Speaker 1: Disgusted, and I've watched some films of
Speaker 1: Sarah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for anyone who hasn't seen it 2004,.
Speaker 3: Great but dark film.
Speaker 1: But I really like the movie and I have it
Speaker 1: in my DVD collection.
Speaker 3: And we paired that up with another equally
Speaker 3: dark Belgian film or French film called the
Speaker 3: Advent Calendar, which I talked about
Speaker 3: earlier, from 2021.
Speaker 3: So you know we've done that.
Speaker 3: We've done New Years.
Speaker 3: We went for a run of doing New Year's
Speaker 3: themed movies, but there aren't an awful
Speaker 3: lot of them.
Speaker 3: The only other time we really try is
Speaker 3: Valentine's.
Speaker 3: We try and do stuff that's got a slight
Speaker 3: romance or sexy or love.
Speaker 3: But we've also got Easter specials, don't
Speaker 3: we Gaff, which have been the bane of your
Speaker 3: fucking life, because we started off with
Speaker 3: Alien that was fine and Critters.
Speaker 1: I like Alien, Aliens and Prometheus.
Speaker 1: The rest I don't really care about.
Speaker 3: So every year we watched one of the Alien
Speaker 3: franchise all the way through to Covenant,
Speaker 3: which isn't too bad.
Speaker 3: But we then did Alien vs Predator as well.
Speaker 1: That's okay, that's fairly all right.
Speaker 1: Entertainment AVB too.
Speaker 1: Did we do that.
Speaker 1: Do we not bother?
Speaker 3: No, we didn't bother with that one.
Speaker 3: We've got to control the lights.
Speaker 1: But then it's the Critters.
Speaker 3: Well, we did, because Critters come out of
Speaker 3: eggs.
Speaker 3: We thought, well, let's do the Critters
Speaker 3: movies, critters 1?.
Speaker 1: We got that review from someone.
Speaker 3: We got a bad review because I think for
Speaker 3: Critters 3.
Speaker 1: They just didn't like me.
Speaker 3: Well, you just couldn't find anything
Speaker 3: positive to say about Critters 3.
Speaker 3: And as for Critters 4, it isn't any better.
Speaker 3: Really, it's just awful.
Speaker 1: I think when I started with Critters 2, I
Speaker 1: was like shit us too, they didn't like me
Speaker 1: saying that and I was like I'll get nothing
Speaker 1: from this, I can't help it.
Speaker 3: However, after that, because we'd run out
Speaker 3: of egg-themed horror films and
Speaker 3: Easter-themed horror films, I said I've got
Speaker 3: an idea.
Speaker 3: St Patrick's Day usually falls around
Speaker 3: spring slash Easter.
Speaker 3: We're still doing that, though let's do the
Speaker 3: Leprechaun film.
Speaker 3: No, we finished them though.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank God.
Speaker 3: So we started off with the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1: Or Frank Satan.
Speaker 3: And then we did Leprechaun 2 and 3, which I
Speaker 3: could tell when we got that to that point
Speaker 3: you were already done.
Speaker 3: Then we got to Leprechaun 4 in Space, 5, in
Speaker 3: the Hood, 6, back to the Hood and we found
Speaker 3: some fun stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1: No, I remember the second one of the.
Speaker 3: In the Hood ones.
Speaker 1: Wasn't that actually not like the stuff?
Speaker 1: Production value was OK.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I had.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a pretty good production.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's going to be surprised
Speaker 1: by it, I think.
Speaker 3: It's because the one before it, the
Speaker 3: production was so low, they spent all their
Speaker 3: budget on iced tea being in it.
Speaker 3: Do you remember?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the second one was actually just a
Speaker 1: little bit better.
Speaker 1: I think I remember now, fucking hell, I
Speaker 1: remember.
Speaker 3: Well, it was only this year we recorded it.
Speaker 1: That's why the budgets were the same, but
Speaker 1: it was just different people making it
Speaker 1: different director, production, whatever so
Speaker 1: one of them was more talented than the
Speaker 1: other.
Speaker 1: Sorry, that's the way it is.
Speaker 3: Now my question to you is I already know
Speaker 3: that your least favourite films we've
Speaker 3: covered are going to be in one of those two
Speaker 3: franchises, but which franchise to you is
Speaker 3: the worst one, Critters, which is only four
Speaker 3: films, or Leprechaun, which is six, not
Speaker 3: including the two recent sort of reboots,
Speaker 3: oh my God, which we're not going to cover,
Speaker 3: by the way.
Speaker 3: What one's worse?
Speaker 3: Yeah, which is worse.
Speaker 1: Probably the Critters, because at least
Speaker 1: with Leprechaun's it's Warwick Davis as
Speaker 1: well.
Speaker 1: He continues throughout the films slight
Speaker 1: theme.
Speaker 1: It's quite funny because Warwick Davis as
Speaker 1: well.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go with that either, as more.
Speaker 1: I don't know If you said like, right,
Speaker 1: that's it.
Speaker 1: You're sitting in this room, you're going
Speaker 1: to watch a Critters' movie, back to back
Speaker 1: Looped, or the six Warwick.
Speaker 1: I was probably going to six, I suppose,
Speaker 1: because there's more of them, I don't know.
Speaker 3: If you could smoke weed and watch the
Speaker 3: Leprechaun movies and have a bong every
Speaker 3: time Warwick Davis has a bong, it might
Speaker 3: make you better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I thought I'd ask that one
Speaker 3: because you know, I know that I've put you
Speaker 3: through a lot over the ten years, gav, I'm
Speaker 3: really sorry.
Speaker 3: I've made you watch some of those films,
Speaker 3: but I think 90% of what we've watched and
Speaker 3: reviewed has been fun.
Speaker 3: Often that we come out of a film both sort
Speaker 3: of going like shit.
Speaker 1: Eight 85.
Speaker 3: 85.
Speaker 1: There's been some movies I've been like.
Speaker 3: I think the good thing about our
Speaker 3: conversation, though, is we always find
Speaker 3: something funny or silly and go on.
Speaker 3: What are you going to say?
Speaker 1: The difference between you and I.
Speaker 1: I will sit there and fucking go no and get
Speaker 1: moody and not moody.
Speaker 1: I just have more of a and it's not a
Speaker 1: negative opinion, because I'm a happy but
Speaker 1: like person.
Speaker 1: But I will really fucking give it to a
Speaker 1: movie where I don't feel like it.
Speaker 1: It's where you'll be a lot more upbeat
Speaker 1: about it and that probably makes it better
Speaker 1: listening rather than us both being in the
Speaker 1: exact same page, because that'd be boring.
Speaker 3: It would be boring.
Speaker 1: Unless it's a justified good film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when we're reviewing Die.
Speaker 1: Hard.
Speaker 3: It's something, of course, but then people
Speaker 3: are tuning in knowing that they're going to
Speaker 3: hear two people really loving Die Hard, I
Speaker 3: was going to say by hard.
Speaker 3: Then I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1: By hard.
Speaker 3: But I think what makes it is our silly
Speaker 3: tangents and stupid voices and jokes over
Speaker 3: the years.
Speaker 3: So long may it continue.
Speaker 3: And it's been an incredible journey and
Speaker 3: we're just about to.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 3: Really, it's just incredible.
Speaker 1: Shall we get on to the episode?
Speaker 3: Yeah, 2024, here we come.
Speaker 3: I was going to say here you.
Speaker 1: I thought you could say here we come.
Speaker 3: Oh Well, thank you for sticking with us
Speaker 3: everyone for ten years, but now we're going
Speaker 3: to review a one and only Christmas film for
Speaker 3: this Christmas episode which is the
Speaker 3: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3: After vacationing across America and
Speaker 3: throughout Europe this holiday season, the
Speaker 3: Griswolds are going to play it safe.
Speaker 3: Clark, we're stuck under a truck.
Speaker 2: Oops, they're staying at home.
Speaker 2: I give you the Griswold Family Christmas
Speaker 2: tree.
Speaker 2: Hope you're not getting sat well over your
Speaker 2: sweater, clark.
Speaker 3: All Clark wants is a quiet, old-fashioned
Speaker 3: Christmas.
Speaker 3: Sorry.
Speaker 3: That little knot here.
Speaker 3: Do work on that.
Speaker 3: What he's going to get is the gift that
Speaker 3: keeps on living.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas, His family.
Speaker 3: We didn't come to impose.
Speaker 3: Oh hell, let's play in your room.
Speaker 3: Do you sleep with your brother?
Speaker 3: Do you know how sick and twisted that?
Speaker 1: is Mom.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sleeping with your father.
Speaker 2: Have you got a kiss for me?
Speaker 2: You better take a rain check on that Art.
Speaker 3: He's got lip fungus seen identified yet.
Speaker 3: But no holiday could ever be more deeply
Speaker 3: touching.
Speaker 3: We were going to call, but anyone had to
Speaker 3: make it a surprise.
Speaker 3: If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to
Speaker 3: the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised
Speaker 3: than I am right now.
Speaker 2: Ah, we're really going to fly down the hill
Speaker 2: with this stuff, so genuinely moving.
Speaker 2: I refill your eggnog for you, drive you out
Speaker 2: to the middle of nowhere, leave you for
Speaker 2: dead.
Speaker 2: More truly uplifting, can I show you
Speaker 2: something?
Speaker 2: Let's just blouse browsing For more down to
Speaker 2: earth.
Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: If Santa is smart, he'll stay well clear of
Speaker 2: this jointed to death trap.
Speaker 1: What Then?
Speaker 1: Christmas with the Griswolds?
Speaker 1: Everybody come out quick look at the lights.
Speaker 1: They want you to say gris.
Speaker 2: I pledge allegiance to the flag the United
Speaker 2: States of America.
Speaker 3: This year let's chevy chase light up your
Speaker 3: holidays.
Speaker 3: National.
Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 1: The thing had nine lives.
Speaker 1: You just spit them all, you whoo crack up.
Speaker 1: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation from
Speaker 1: 1989, rated 12 and hour and 37 minutes.
Speaker 3: The Griswold Families Plan for a big family
Speaker 3: Christmas Predictably turned into a big
Speaker 3: disaster.
Speaker 3: Don't worry guys, we're not going to do
Speaker 3: that.
Speaker 1: There's too much review like that.
Speaker 3: But we just figured, because there's only
Speaker 3: one movie.
Speaker 1: There's too much for you like that, here we
Speaker 1: go.
Speaker 1: Ostar Angelo, you do one word from your
Speaker 1: notes Fucking hell, what crazy people is
Speaker 1: going to decipher that review.
Speaker 1: I figured it out the biggest brain in the
Speaker 1: world deciphered their review of National
Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
Speaker 3: This is written by John Hughes, who is very
Speaker 3: good at writing Christmas films, and,
Speaker 3: weirdly, directed by Jeremiah S Chichik,
Speaker 3: who Did a lot of music videos and does a
Speaker 3: lot of TV.
Speaker 3: Now, he's only ever done a handful of films.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't know any of them other than
Speaker 3: this one and the Avengers.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm not talking about Marvel's
Speaker 3: Avengers, I'm talking about the British God
Speaker 3: awful film with Sean Connery, uma Thurman,
Speaker 3: ray Fiance, british TV show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, awful film, but in a cheesy kind of
Speaker 3: way.
Speaker 3: So, what a strange career.
Speaker 1: but yeah, well it.
Speaker 1: It differs really because this, this
Speaker 1: product, would have been one of some strong
Speaker 1: willed minded people and Chevy Chase being
Speaker 1: one of them, been a supposed to be kind of
Speaker 1: hard to work, with Christopher Columbus
Speaker 1: being kind of put off by wanting to work
Speaker 1: with Chevy Chase and declining, and John
Speaker 1: Hughes saying I can't do it I'm still
Speaker 1: wrapping up post on Uncle Buck, but you can
Speaker 1: imagine like sometimes you don't actually
Speaker 1: have to direct, you could.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be films out there which you
Speaker 1: like, guaranteed behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: The director was kind of just go and the
Speaker 1: director of photography, the producer, that
Speaker 1: so many people are quite strong people,
Speaker 1: would, it could, would and could of, not
Speaker 1: necessarily just because they're strong
Speaker 1: people.
Speaker 1: What just have happened?
Speaker 1: Because the director, whatever reasons
Speaker 1: happen, can make the film without a
Speaker 1: director.
Speaker 1: You can have everybody in place, knowing
Speaker 1: what they do and just the film involves and
Speaker 1: made itself and guaranteed Just movies out
Speaker 1: there which you love, which that happened.
Speaker 1: So, even though the director didn't have
Speaker 1: that much of a CV as such, I don't think
Speaker 1: that's too much of an issue to make this
Speaker 1: film, but saying that it's a well-handed
Speaker 1: film.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think the cast Really Drive it
Speaker 3: because it is an ensemble piece.
Speaker 3: Although it's Chevy Chase, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: cast members that all play their part, you
Speaker 3: know Randy Quaid, etc.
Speaker 3: And Without all of those cast members, all
Speaker 3: the children, all the old relatives,
Speaker 3: everybody, the neighbors, that's what makes
Speaker 3: this film and I can't.
Speaker 3: I'm it, didn't probably do it Incredibly
Speaker 3: when it came out, but it's one of those
Speaker 3: films that is a cult classic.
Speaker 1: It's needed, it's like you need it.
Speaker 1: It's Halloween.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it needed to take a long time before
Speaker 3: people started appreciating it.
Speaker 1: I think, really the two strong people, and
Speaker 1: it really would have been John Hughes and
Speaker 1: Cherry Chase, those two even though John
Speaker 1: who's and Cherry Chase producing.
Speaker 1: Just because they are, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: saying, no, this is what we're doing,
Speaker 1: that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: John Hughes is quite visually directing.
Speaker 1: He's a director that no, it's a Quentin
Speaker 1: Tarantino.
Speaker 1: They know a crystal Nolan, they know where
Speaker 1: they're gonna go, what a movie looks like
Speaker 1: in their mind.
Speaker 1: Already They've pretty much produced it and
Speaker 1: done that.
Speaker 1: So when he comes up with the idea of going
Speaker 1: to Angelo Badalamenti twin peaks, david
Speaker 1: Lynch's composer and saying, can you score
Speaker 1: this film, which he did, he's doing that in
Speaker 1: a way, he wants to this film to be coming
Speaker 1: at it in a darker side and not as normal,
Speaker 1: because he knows Angelo Badalamenti's never
Speaker 1: composed something like this and it's just
Speaker 1: give it a hold of a thing.
Speaker 1: But he's the one saying that John Hughes is
Speaker 1: going in as producer, saying that the
Speaker 1: director isn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so the director is more of a
Speaker 1: director for hire, I think, for this
Speaker 1: particular project.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that does happen, like you say,
Speaker 3: from time to time.
Speaker 3: Where it's it's more about the, the clay
Speaker 3: behind.
Speaker 1: Where it happens mainly isn't TV.
Speaker 1: Hmm that's why you have a director.
Speaker 1: Come on to a couple episodes.
Speaker 1: You might see a slight signature, but they
Speaker 1: don't have time.
Speaker 1: It's move on, shoot move, shoot move.
Speaker 1: We just need a director who's available at
Speaker 1: the time.
Speaker 3: When did you first come across this film?
Speaker 3: Is this a childhood one or I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I think the childhood I do remember.
Speaker 1: I think a lot more the other lampoons.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the European I think European, mainly
Speaker 1: being English and known London, and this is,
Speaker 1: you know, pre-internet.
Speaker 1: So like it felt more homely to me, I guess.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know this.
Speaker 1: But then one day my buddy is like oh no, we
Speaker 1: watch national boot cruise focus.
Speaker 1: It's like Christmas day or Christmas Eve,
Speaker 1: christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: And he goes no, we were every year and I
Speaker 1: sat every morning watched it with him a
Speaker 1: Christmas Eve and it was kind of fun to do
Speaker 1: that with his family.
Speaker 1: And then we kind of did it again.
Speaker 1: Then I kind of just took that tradition on
Speaker 1: and this year's only year I didn't, because
Speaker 1: I didn't get time to do it for and I wanted
Speaker 1: to do a bit more fresher for show, and I
Speaker 1: was luckily because I went see it yesterday
Speaker 1: when I was boss bits Bob's.
Speaker 1: I found it on Blu-ray and picked up and it
Speaker 1: was really nice to see in such high
Speaker 1: definition.
Speaker 1: So that's it, that's the history for me.
Speaker 1: How about?
Speaker 3: yourself.
Speaker 3: I think I Don't really remember seeing it
Speaker 3: as a kid.
Speaker 3: It was certainly wasn't on rotation when we
Speaker 3: were kids.
Speaker 3: It wasn't something we would watch every
Speaker 3: year, but we had seen it.
Speaker 3: But I think it felt like a bit more of an
Speaker 3: adult film so I didn't really get it so
Speaker 3: much.
Speaker 3: It wasn't really until I Really I mean, if
Speaker 3: I'm honest with you, the first time I
Speaker 3: really properly fell in love with it Was
Speaker 3: was watching it with you, probably a good
Speaker 3: 10, 11, 12 years ago.
Speaker 3: Your house and I remember thinking god,
Speaker 3: this is so good, and I think probably
Speaker 3: because the moment we were both sat there
Speaker 3: really laughing at it, probably drinking
Speaker 3: egg mog, egg mog.
Speaker 1: Everybody warning don't drink egg mog.
Speaker 1: And because I have one of the most glasses
Speaker 1: as well we were probably full of cheese,
Speaker 1: and you know crisps.
Speaker 1: But I think is that our podcast is style
Speaker 1: for the cheese.
Speaker 3: But I think, like our jokes, I think that
Speaker 3: was when I started to really fall in love
Speaker 3: with it.
Speaker 3: And then I've watched it every year.
Speaker 3: I think for the last 10 or more years, and
Speaker 3: In fact the last couple of years, it's
Speaker 3: moved into my top five Christmas films of
Speaker 3: all time.
Speaker 3: And this year I'm talking to my dad because
Speaker 3: he said I'll do a watch along with you and
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I can't because I've got to
Speaker 3: make notes.
Speaker 3: But I said look, tell me when you, if you
Speaker 3: want, we'll press play at the same time and
Speaker 3: then we can have a phone call afterwards.
Speaker 3: So we did and I said to him God, you know
Speaker 3: what, dad, I didn't realize Just how much I
Speaker 3: relate to Clark Griswold, but my god, I
Speaker 3: don't know if I've ever related to a
Speaker 3: character more in a film or a definitely in
Speaker 3: a Christmas film as A guy who's such an
Speaker 3: optimistic man, who's trying to bring
Speaker 3: everyone together and it's tries to see the
Speaker 3: good and positive and everything which I do
Speaker 3: in real life as much as I can, and
Speaker 3: Sometimes the world's just against this guy
Speaker 3: and you just feel so bad for him.
Speaker 3: But also it's so fucking hilarious and it's
Speaker 3: so, john Hughes, you know it's got that
Speaker 3: planes, trains, automobiles, style, great
Speaker 3: outdoors, those movies where you shouldn't
Speaker 3: really be laughing at this guy and his
Speaker 3: family falling apart, but you kind of are
Speaker 3: because it's just so stupid.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think you're one of the reasons
Speaker 3: I fell back in love with it and really
Speaker 3: realize how great this film is really.
Speaker 3: And it it's just a film about a man and his
Speaker 3: family, but the scenes, it's each
Speaker 3: individual scene, everybody's got a
Speaker 3: favorite.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like a series of sketches
Speaker 3: almost, isn't it?
Speaker 3: You know, the opening scene, the middle
Speaker 3: seat, this bit, that bit, you know, and
Speaker 3: then just throwing all these cast members
Speaker 3: and as soon as Randy Quaid shows up, my god,
Speaker 3: it just kicks into overdrive because he's
Speaker 3: just a ridiculous character that you kind
Speaker 3: of love to hate, really, or hate to love
Speaker 3: which everyone.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's just awesome, awesome.
Speaker 1: Randy Quaid, john Hughes.
Speaker 1: The second film that he wrote of the
Speaker 1: national impunes didn't do so well in a box
Speaker 1: office and it didn't involve cousin Eddie
Speaker 1: and he felt like this film had to have
Speaker 1: cousin Eddie to make it more, make it more
Speaker 1: Acceptable in a box office and you know,
Speaker 1: get the money back against up a thing any.
Speaker 1: For only Randy Quaid can do it as well.
Speaker 1: So that happened.
Speaker 1: I wonder what he thought of part two, if he
Speaker 1: is still alive, john Hughes, when he part
Speaker 1: two came out.
Speaker 1: So he would not have like that.
Speaker 3: It's called Island vacation, cousin Eddie's
Speaker 3: island vacation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what happens I?
Speaker 3: Don't.
Speaker 3: The only reason I watched it is because bow
Speaker 3: Randall did did it for his Christmas
Speaker 3: special a couple years ago Pick six movies
Speaker 3: to show one of his shows and and him and
Speaker 3: his buddy covered it and they were ripping
Speaker 3: it to shreds and I thought I've got to see.
Speaker 3: I think it was on prime for free to watch.
Speaker 3: I thought I've got to see this and see if
Speaker 3: it's as bad.
Speaker 3: And, to be honest with you, bow is
Speaker 3: sometimes the reason I watch some of these
Speaker 3: terrible films because His show they rip
Speaker 3: things apart so much that it makes me I'm
Speaker 3: such a you know, I've got such a bad streak
Speaker 3: I need to go.
Speaker 3: You know I'm like with shark movies etc.
Speaker 3: So I had to go watch it and it was just
Speaker 3: terrible.
Speaker 3: I don't remember much about it.
Speaker 3: To be honest, I think they try and do a lot
Speaker 3: of callbacks and jokes and lines from from
Speaker 3: this one, but it just falls so flat.
Speaker 3: You know Chevy Chase isn't in it.
Speaker 3: It's not even that very Christmasy.
Speaker 3: It takes place on a tropical island.
Speaker 3: I think he wins a trip away or something.
Speaker 3: Just terrible.
Speaker 3: Gal, I'm only great, he's a funny Guy, but
Speaker 3: he's not a leading man.
Speaker 3: He can't carry a film that movie.
Speaker 1: I watched a very sorry that bug bust the
Speaker 1: movie or what's over it's called.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it on last episode.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, great, yeah, ready, great.
Speaker 1: I kind of don't mind him, did he go, but
Speaker 1: hasn't he got a bit yeah?
Speaker 3: Him and his wife.
Speaker 1: In the world, and they were.
Speaker 3: I think they live in like basically where
Speaker 3: tin foil hats and think the government he
Speaker 3: basically is turning.
Speaker 1: It's one of his characters independence day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's phenomenal in this and I
Speaker 3: have some of the best lines.
Speaker 3: But Clark is my favorite character, or
Speaker 3: Sparky as his wife likes to call him.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She doesn't look like her anymore.
Speaker 1: No, she looks very different.
Speaker 1: It's like a totally different person from
Speaker 1: all the plastic surgery.
Speaker 3: She's had a Beverly DeAngelo.
Speaker 3: She was in Vine at night, wasn't she?
Speaker 1: and I didn't know it's her until it's half
Speaker 1: way through.
Speaker 1: And I've been watching her.
Speaker 1: For If you said to me who's that woman, I'd
Speaker 1: be like I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I've never seen it before.
Speaker 1: Probably wouldn't notice her voice
Speaker 1: eventually, maybe, but weird.
Speaker 3: We also got gracefully.
Speaker 1: Juliette Lewis in this as well, a young
Speaker 1: Juliette Lewis, and then one of the dudes
Speaker 1: from that Popular program.
Speaker 1: It's all about space theory or something.
Speaker 1: Okay not sure about that one.
Speaker 1: What's it called?
Speaker 3: Oh, you mean that got?
Speaker 3: Back in theory I can hate that show.
Speaker 1: He's, he's in that as me.
Speaker 3: He is fucking.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, I forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's because I've really I try and
Speaker 3: avoid that show.
Speaker 3: I Really get greats on me that show does oh
Speaker 3: that's that show.
Speaker 1: I'm funny enough I'm about to say it's a
Speaker 1: Marmot show, but I'm not because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I Don't really have any opinion of it.
Speaker 1: To be honest, I understand why it has a
Speaker 1: following.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do as well.
Speaker 3: But I think what annoys me is I don't find
Speaker 3: it very funny and I don't, and I don't like
Speaker 3: it.
Speaker 3: And everybody tells me, oh damn, you must
Speaker 3: like the big bang theory.
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, I don't know like what why
Speaker 3: would they like to think that?
Speaker 3: Because Catches on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, and I like some science
Speaker 3: fiction, but I'm not like these guys.
Speaker 3: I'm not socially inept, hope.
Speaker 3: Well, let's get into this film.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about this film and you
Speaker 3: know we're gonna, so.
Speaker 1: If you've still, it is still Christmas Eve
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 1: You're probably back at work or saying baby
Speaker 1: if it isn't see if you can have the little
Speaker 1: hot chocos.
Speaker 1: But say hot choccho, what's hot choccho?
Speaker 1: Choccho sounds like something you smoke and
Speaker 1: drink some eggmark.
Speaker 1: I have me a hot choccho and smoke some.
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3: Well, like I say, this film, basically this
Speaker 3: movie is a series of sketches, really, with
Speaker 3: the plotline being that Clark Griswold is
Speaker 3: trying to hold it all together.
Speaker 3: He's got various members of his family in
Speaker 3: Laws aunties, cousins descending on him and
Speaker 3: he's happily taking everyone in over
Speaker 3: Christmas, all whilst waiting on a Bonus
Speaker 3: check to come through from his boss.
Speaker 1: Well, I actually had this sort of as a
Speaker 1: reviewer, looking at this in a different
Speaker 1: type, different than I ever have before,
Speaker 1: and looking at his choices and what's going
Speaker 1: on, and it's it as I can figure out.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have to work it out through clues
Speaker 1: in the film.
Speaker 1: This, this house, was his parents and they
Speaker 1: gave it to him and moved to a smaller place.
Speaker 1: This is what I've had to come to the
Speaker 1: conclusion, so it helped me this bit.
Speaker 1: Okay and he now has the house.
Speaker 1: But he's decided he wants a big family
Speaker 1: Christmas for the first time with everybody,
Speaker 1: and that's why he's inviting them all over
Speaker 1: and they're staying for sale.
Speaker 1: They're staying for like a month, which is
Speaker 1: ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Well, only edit.
Speaker 1: Cousin Eddie is Okay, but that's an idea
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be staying for a month, but those
Speaker 1: guys do turn up in the 14th, which is just
Speaker 1: to be insane, hmm, Anyway, so that's how I
Speaker 1: figured this out, because I couldn't, I had
Speaker 1: to.
Speaker 1: I've never really figured the movie out,
Speaker 1: and that's what's going on.
Speaker 1: And cousin Eddie just happens to hear that
Speaker 1: this is happening and turns up.
Speaker 1: And the reason being is when he finds a
Speaker 1: small packet present that he hid when he
Speaker 1: was a child in the loft For his mum.
Speaker 3: No, no, that's the present that he bought
Speaker 3: his wife, I think, for Mother's Day.
Speaker 3: Oh really.
Speaker 3: But I still think your theories is good,
Speaker 3: because he finds all those old videos
Speaker 3: canisters and also he's a man who is Almost
Speaker 3: obsessed with tradition.
Speaker 3: Absolutely he wants to keep this dream
Speaker 3: alive now.
Speaker 1: The reason I relate to my and having a big
Speaker 1: family meal now from everybody there.
Speaker 3: And everything you've just described is
Speaker 3: actually is my dad.
Speaker 3: My dad is Really loves tradition.
Speaker 3: He loves having a big family thing.
Speaker 3: You know, christmas was his big Thing.
Speaker 3: The house turned into Santa's grotto if
Speaker 3: everyone was there.
Speaker 3: You just see him sat in the corner watching
Speaker 3: everybody interacting, drinking and eating.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like a bit sad really when we
Speaker 3: lost mum because he's kind of taking the
Speaker 3: wind out of his cells a little bit for
Speaker 3: Christmas, but up until that point he he
Speaker 3: was bit like Clark really tried everything
Speaker 3: you could to make sure everyone was there
Speaker 3: and everyone was fed and everyone was
Speaker 3: looked after and had a bed.
Speaker 3: So I think that's why I relate to Clark,
Speaker 3: because he's such a sweet heart really.
Speaker 3: You know I heart.
Speaker 1: He's just such a good guy at heart really
Speaker 1: well, I think also he's probably invited
Speaker 1: everybody down because he's getting a
Speaker 1: swimming pool.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I do say it's one of things Sarah also said.
Speaker 1: Well, the house in America probably cheaper,
Speaker 1: but so many movies you have the people with
Speaker 1: like ridiculously big houses is, I don't
Speaker 1: know, I thought like it's just a bit like
Speaker 1: yeah, I'm like then how do you afford
Speaker 1: everybody's flights?
Speaker 1: It's just a bit like it.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It almost I don't know if it wouldn't
Speaker 1: intentional, but goes almost put people
Speaker 1: down, or do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Or it's just like people can't afford such
Speaker 1: properties.
Speaker 1: It's a bit like I don't really like that.
Speaker 3: Well, there is that.
Speaker 1: I never thought about that shit, and even
Speaker 1: on middle-aged, you know.
Speaker 3: Clark's plan is, on boxing day morning, to
Speaker 3: reveal to the ball that he's building
Speaker 3: swimming pool.
Speaker 1: Obviously, that plan and that's why I'd
Speaker 1: invite everyone down.
Speaker 3: I could you but then at the same time he
Speaker 3: wants everyone to know so that he can then
Speaker 3: fly them over for the summer when the
Speaker 3: swimming pools ready and they can have a
Speaker 3: big family summer thing.
Speaker 3: So he, he's still doing it from a family
Speaker 3: point of view.
Speaker 3: He's always got his and he loves his kids
Speaker 3: and he loves his wife and they love him and
Speaker 3: even when things go wrong or he looks like
Speaker 3: a buffoon, they still support him and say,
Speaker 3: dad, you did a good job, you tried your
Speaker 3: best, we love you, dad.
Speaker 3: I think the only people he doesn't like
Speaker 3: actively in this whole movie are his yuppie
Speaker 3: neighbors, who seem to hate him as much as
Speaker 3: he Margot.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who live in Murdoch's Murdoch's, murdoch's
Speaker 1: house, murdoch's house.
Speaker 1: Relief a weapon, yeah.
Speaker 3: But other than those two, he, he loves
Speaker 3: everyone and he loves Christmas.
Speaker 1: Murdoch, murdoch, murdoch, murdoch.
Speaker 1: Can't fucking a crossover, just those two.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if Murdoch's pissed off with
Speaker 3: Rick's behavior, if we, if Murdoch gets
Speaker 3: pissed off with Rick's behavior, what's he
Speaker 3: gonna be like being paired up with Murdoch?
Speaker 3: He'd be in a.
Speaker 3: It'd be in a helicopter.
Speaker 1: It's not just a why he's not gonna be like
Speaker 1: this fucking white guy.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 3: It just that it's like this white guy and
Speaker 3: he's flying a helicopter upside down and
Speaker 3: he's like why are we upside down?
Speaker 3: I'm too old for this shit, murdoch.
Speaker 1: Murdoch.
Speaker 3: Oh man Murdoch, what a great character.
Speaker 1: I want to see that.
Speaker 1: Should we get into it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's do it, so we still have a car.
Speaker 3: Well, we start off with the nice animated
Speaker 3: credits, which always gets me in the
Speaker 3: Christmas spirit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, my god, that song.
Speaker 1: Please kill me now.
Speaker 3: I oh, really I love that song.
Speaker 1: No, no, it's.
Speaker 1: Please choose a different singer.
Speaker 3: Maybe you can do it.
Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, you're right, we're in that.
Speaker 3: We start off in a very eight, late 80s
Speaker 3: American family wagon, station wagon, and
Speaker 3: we're driving along and the family is
Speaker 3: singing Again.
Speaker 3: This gives us straight away we know who
Speaker 3: Clark is.
Speaker 1: He's there, oh what what is with with this
Speaker 1: is you see the wife just been like okay,
Speaker 1: husband, I would you know Long fit is.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, kids, here we go.
Speaker 1: And it's just so funny the dynamic and the
Speaker 1: mum and dad Absolutely adore and love each
Speaker 1: other, which is quite sweet and it's quite
Speaker 1: evident.
Speaker 1: Idiots like my kids think I am you know
Speaker 1: Accia recently they my kids think it's
Speaker 1: quite cool I've got a movie for rent and
Speaker 1: buy on prime shadow death Amazon Prime.
Speaker 1: They think I'm quite cool.
Speaker 1: It's like, of course, some cool points
Speaker 1: recently.
Speaker 3: Well, the kids, you know they're sat in the
Speaker 3: back.
Speaker 3: So I'm like, oh, because then they start
Speaker 3: singing jingle bells as well, you know.
Speaker 1: The idea that he's just gonna go out to the
Speaker 1: woods, not not just close by, they're gonna
Speaker 1: hike, it's like.
Speaker 1: It's like.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, just out in the middle
Speaker 1: of fucking nowhere it's gonna go and find a
Speaker 1: tree.
Speaker 1: Doesn't take us all which really eventually
Speaker 1: find out what is the idea in this.
Speaker 1: It's not.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that he's just trying to be
Speaker 1: proper old-school, traditional.
Speaker 1: Hey, come on kids.
Speaker 3: I think the problem is the problem with
Speaker 3: Clark is he thinks with his heart and not
Speaker 3: his head.
Speaker 1: Evident.
Speaker 3: Because they're like well, where are we
Speaker 3: going?
Speaker 1: Basically, it's almost like he's like his
Speaker 1: heart has gone Tree.
Speaker 1: No, let's go.
Speaker 1: Everybody cut in the car.
Speaker 1: Let's go, we're going.
Speaker 3: It's not just the tree, is it it?
Speaker 3: He says the big, we're going to pick up the,
Speaker 3: the centerpiece, the Symbol of our family's
Speaker 3: Christmas, and I'm talking about the
Speaker 3: Griswold family tree.
Speaker 3: It's the most important thing.
Speaker 3: If we've got that in the house, then
Speaker 3: Christmas can start.
Speaker 3: So it's it's like the symbol of everything
Speaker 3: that is Griswold Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're like why don't we just go
Speaker 3: and buy me?
Speaker 3: So that's not how it works.
Speaker 3: We have to go into a field, hack one down
Speaker 3: and bring it home.
Speaker 3: That's the way it is, that's the way my dad
Speaker 3: did it.
Speaker 3: That's the way his dad did it.
Speaker 3: You know, you get the impression this is a
Speaker 3: tradition.
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 1: I am never going out and getting a train
Speaker 1: chucking on top of my Prius.
Speaker 1: I never make it anywhere.
Speaker 3: Don't, don't do it, especially this tree
Speaker 3: with the roots and all well, before they
Speaker 3: get there, gov, they get some jackasses
Speaker 3: riding their tail, don't they?
Speaker 1: I love these guys couple of hillbillies in
Speaker 1: the vehicle which was in they live.
Speaker 3: Is it that car is?
Speaker 1: that live anchor Russell's job car in
Speaker 1: overboard brilliant.
Speaker 3: Well, these guys really are riding their
Speaker 3: tail, so they sort of go around him and he
Speaker 3: flips them the bird, and then Then they put
Speaker 3: the brakes on and he always crashes.
Speaker 1: I know finally they put these break.
Speaker 1: They did.
Speaker 1: It's that old-classic trick.
Speaker 1: I've had people do it to me before.
Speaker 1: I had some kids do it to me once.
Speaker 1: It's really weird.
Speaker 1: I was with someone else going what these,
Speaker 1: what these teenage kids have just learned
Speaker 1: to drive doing, and they're like Thinking
Speaker 1: that I was really close behind them because
Speaker 1: I think the kid had learned, just let it
Speaker 1: drive and didn't know perception, and I
Speaker 1: said I'm not even that close to them.
Speaker 1: They're doing the brakes, you know, and I
Speaker 1: was like I'm not even near them, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're trying to do.
Speaker 1: Or was it like jump in?
Speaker 1: It's like okay, slow down and anyway.
Speaker 1: I've had that done.
Speaker 1: So these guys are doing this.
Speaker 1: These are your typical kind of you don't
Speaker 1: want to piss off.
Speaker 1: They've probably got a shotgun and the dog
Speaker 1: Sick balls chopper type dog, you know yeah.
Speaker 3: He says to them Well, you wait and see what
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do, don't worry.
Speaker 3: I think he says I'm gonna burn dust, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna tell them to eat my rubber rusty is
Speaker 3: trying to explain to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't even get the words right.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a good idea, but but
Speaker 1: you know he's still gonna go for it Because
Speaker 1: yeah, because he has a jacket.
Speaker 1: It's right in his tail, as he says.
Speaker 3: Well, they eventually run him off the road
Speaker 3: by tricking him into the path of a log
Speaker 3: lorry from to final destination to so he's
Speaker 3: Thinks on his feet and he just pulls out.
Speaker 1: But as he pulls out, it's something you do
Speaker 1: when you drive, Dan.
Speaker 3: You look in your mirror just pull out.
Speaker 1: You go, huh.
Speaker 1: No, I won't go.
Speaker 1: There's a big fucking lorry on the other
Speaker 1: lane Wife for that and then I'll pull out.
Speaker 1: No, no.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 3: So this stunt is something that I've seen
Speaker 3: in a Jackie Chan movie once as well, and
Speaker 3: what they managed to do is get and it's
Speaker 3: probably attached, I should imagine but
Speaker 3: they think he accidentally drives his car
Speaker 3: underneath a huge juggernaut, the space
Speaker 3: underneath it, and then they're trapped and
Speaker 3: and he's like what do I do?
Speaker 3: What do I do?
Speaker 3: She's like I don't know.
Speaker 3: He's like, well, I didn't mean to get us
Speaker 3: under here, and they're kind of driving
Speaker 3: along underneath this lorry and he's like,
Speaker 3: well, how do I get out?
Speaker 3: Well, he pulls out and Slams off into a big
Speaker 3: bank of snow and they all survive, because
Speaker 3: the next we see them trudging through the
Speaker 3: snow Trying to find this Christmas tree.
Speaker 1: It's a ridiculous.
Speaker 3: His daughter's frozen who's?
Speaker 1: carrying it Him and that Lowe's for.
Speaker 3: But his daughter can't carry it because
Speaker 3: she's frozen from the waist down and her
Speaker 3: eyeballs are frozen.
Speaker 3: She can't see.
Speaker 1: It reminded me of if I tried to take Daisy
Speaker 1: out and just out of that I would hear every
Speaker 1: swear word under the Sun.
Speaker 1: And it do not mean I could.
Speaker 1: You can never get a teenage girl out there,
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Happily.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, like you said earlier, how?
Speaker 1: did he get out?
Speaker 1: Do they get big foot to pull it out
Speaker 1: eventually?
Speaker 1: I don't know how they put it out the ground
Speaker 1: that's the thing, though, because we're
Speaker 1: doing a review, as I on this, I started
Speaker 1: doing logic and I was like I stop, gav,
Speaker 1: stop putting logic to it, it's just fun
Speaker 1: sketches.
Speaker 3: Yeah Well, somehow he pulls out the ground
Speaker 3: and the next shot, the next shot is you see
Speaker 3: three, which is about twice as big as the
Speaker 3: car With all the roots that attached not
Speaker 3: just the roots, like a whole mound of
Speaker 3: triangle of turf.
Speaker 3: It's fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1: When he gets back though, todd and Margo
Speaker 1: happy to be out there there.
Speaker 1: There you're.
Speaker 1: Yuppie, I've got to say 90s.
Speaker 1: Here You're up, he kind of jogging pair
Speaker 1: like they're the new type of when event,
Speaker 1: when we originally had like people going to
Speaker 1: like mineral vidman shops and things like
Speaker 1: that.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean when it's a more
Speaker 1: than any, a certain amount of people, do
Speaker 1: that?
Speaker 3: now Everybody does and they're really into
Speaker 3: their technology because they've got a
Speaker 3: fancy high-fi stereo system.
Speaker 1: Anyway, they've got a certain class that
Speaker 1: they feel that they are, or whatever.
Speaker 1: A cousin any really makes them Realize
Speaker 1: there is definitely other classes and and
Speaker 1: they basically see him and I, oh my god,
Speaker 1: look what he's got over there.
Speaker 1: And obviously we see the neighborhood
Speaker 1: rivalry.
Speaker 1: So they sort of say, hey, chris world,
Speaker 1: where you just take that tree, yeah he says
Speaker 1: when did you bend over?
Speaker 1: And I'll show you that's no way to talk to
Speaker 1: me.
Speaker 1: Chris world, who do you think you are?
Speaker 3: I wasn't talking to you and it's just such
Speaker 3: a great exchange and you know that although
Speaker 3: this guy's a bit of a softy, he will not
Speaker 3: take shit from these neighbors.
Speaker 1: Well, he's got a Hockey mask on and
Speaker 1: chainsaw raring at raw and at them over his
Speaker 1: head.
Speaker 3: Why don't you bend over and I'll show you
Speaker 3: what a great comeback.
Speaker 1: I wasn't talking to you.
Speaker 3: It's so good, it's so good.
Speaker 3: Well, he gets like the tree in the house.
Speaker 3: Somehow it's all tied up with rope and he
Speaker 3: says here we go, guys, this is a big moment.
Speaker 3: And she's sort of saying it's very bees,
Speaker 3: yes, it is a little fool.
Speaker 1: A third of it is bent over because he
Speaker 1: doesn't fit.
Speaker 1: It doesn't fit in there.
Speaker 3: Will the staff?
Speaker 3: And he's like, yes, I'm sure it will.
Speaker 3: We might need to trim some of it down, but
Speaker 3: it's fine.
Speaker 3: He says, right, he's getting ready to cut
Speaker 3: the ropes to let all the branches settle.
Speaker 3: And he says I give you the Griswold family
Speaker 3: tree and and they're all looking like
Speaker 3: excitedly because the kids really believe
Speaker 3: in their dad.
Speaker 3: You know, he cuts the ropes and it takes up
Speaker 3: the entire living room, smashes all the
Speaker 3: windows and in golf sim, he's inside it
Speaker 3: somewhere.
Speaker 1: All you hear is him say a lot of sap in
Speaker 1: here, a lot of sap and then he's in bed and
Speaker 1: Covered sap with Ellen and they're just
Speaker 1: basically stuck to each other.
Speaker 3: He's reading a magazine and his fingers are
Speaker 3: sticking to the pages, then he sticks to
Speaker 3: her hair and then he sticks to the lamp.
Speaker 1: Very funny but silly comic stuff and the
Speaker 1: next day is December the 14th, my middle
Speaker 1: child's birthday and also the day of the
Speaker 1: grandparents both turn up at the exact same
Speaker 1: time.
Speaker 3: They do.
Speaker 3: Before that, though, we do see Clark at
Speaker 3: work with his Tasmanian devil cup full of
Speaker 3: cocoa, and this is where we find out.
Speaker 3: He's talking to his colleague who says oh,
Speaker 3: we should be getting our bonus check soon.
Speaker 3: He says look, I've got a secret.
Speaker 3: You're right.
Speaker 3: Clark says I've got a secret.
Speaker 1: Bill Murray's, not his boss.
Speaker 1: Sorry, bill.
Speaker 1: No, not you, bill.
Speaker 1: That's later the segment.
Speaker 1: No, your brother was in the movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, bill Murray's brother is
Speaker 3: his boss and he says so, he sucks up to him
Speaker 3: a little bit, he doesn't shit.
Speaker 3: But he also shows his colleague you know,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be getting this swimming pool.
Speaker 3: I've already put down $7,500 Deposit on
Speaker 3: this, so when I get my bonus check I can
Speaker 3: pay the rest and then I can tell my family
Speaker 3: we're getting a, you know, for Christmas.
Speaker 3: I'm getting you all a swimming pool ready
Speaker 3: for next summer.
Speaker 3: And his buddy's like, wow, you're yours,
Speaker 3: really are the last family guy, aren't you?
Speaker 3: And then he sees his boss is like he said,
Speaker 3: his boss doesn't give a shit, it doesn't
Speaker 3: even know his name, calls him the wrong
Speaker 3: name and as he walks off he says to a merry
Speaker 3: Christmas, sir.
Speaker 3: And then he says to his all his sort of
Speaker 3: crony.
Speaker 3: She says Merry Christmas, merry, kiss my
Speaker 3: ass, kiss my ass, kiss his ass, kiss your
Speaker 3: own ass.
Speaker 1: He says these are department stocks.
Speaker 1: He needs get in some a present and he
Speaker 1: thinks I might get in some underwear, some
Speaker 1: sexy underwear, and this is where he just
Speaker 1: gets like Like a very 80s 90s man.
Speaker 3: This, this girl working in the department
Speaker 3: store is Pretty special.
Speaker 3: She is hot, yes, she's right, she's hot as
Speaker 3: hell and I've always thought that.
Speaker 3: And yeah, he, she's flirting with him and
Speaker 3: he keeps saying he's keep, because she's
Speaker 3: very.
Speaker 3: She's dressed in a way that you really your
Speaker 3: eyes drawn to her cleavage and she's very
Speaker 3: pretty, blows in a browsing for something.
Speaker 1: It's been nippy outside, nipple.
Speaker 1: What am I saying?
Speaker 3: Why am I saying nipple, I don't know why
Speaker 3: I'm even saying that.
Speaker 3: And then she says some, can I take
Speaker 3: something out for you?
Speaker 3: And he just sort of has a breakdown, he's.
Speaker 1: It's quite like you know this little human,
Speaker 1: but he uses?
Speaker 3: he uses a pair of panties to dab his
Speaker 3: forehead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doesn't he?
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 1: Rust comes along says I see, you can't even
Speaker 1: see the line, can you?
Speaker 1: Rust, no dead.
Speaker 3: Well before that he's saying to her and
Speaker 3: these are for my wife, she's dead.
Speaker 3: He says she's dead.
Speaker 3: He's like well, she's not dead, but you
Speaker 3: know we're divorced, yes, we're really
Speaker 3: divorced.
Speaker 3: We're not together.
Speaker 3: So he's like what are you, what are you
Speaker 3: even saying, clark?
Speaker 3: You're just thumb because some hot girl has
Speaker 3: been your attention.
Speaker 3: You can't get your words out.
Speaker 3: Then she says to him the underwear I'm
Speaker 3: wearing right now is really high cut.
Speaker 3: Look if I lift up my skirt.
Speaker 3: And she shows her whole fine bit of buttock
Speaker 3: to him, says you can't even see the line,
Speaker 3: and this is a rusty turns up and says.
Speaker 3: And he says look, you can't see the line.
Speaker 3: Can you rest and realize this?
Speaker 3: He's been caught red-handed by his son
Speaker 3: staring at some girls legs.
Speaker 3: Hilarious, really, really funny scene.
Speaker 3: Really funny scene.
Speaker 3: But yes, then the in-laws, so Clark's
Speaker 3: parents and Ellen's parents, all arrive at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 3: Argument straight away.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, and and it shot really
Speaker 1: claustrophobic with all close-ups.
Speaker 3: They're all sort of shouting each other,
Speaker 3: but it's not all arguments.
Speaker 3: It's like they've all got news like I've
Speaker 3: got hemorrhoids Can you believe that I've
Speaker 3: got hemorrhoids?
Speaker 3: And then somebody else saying oh, I've got
Speaker 3: banyons in my feet.
Speaker 3: If I give you a shit, a dollar, would you
Speaker 3: rub my feet for me?
Speaker 3: And then I, you've grown, haven't you?
Speaker 3: And they're also hugging and kissing each
Speaker 3: other and it I've been here before where
Speaker 3: families, big families, meet up and it's
Speaker 3: just.
Speaker 3: You just think I need a break from this.
Speaker 3: It's too loud, it's too noisy.
Speaker 1: I went for the first time.
Speaker 1: It's really bad of me because I've been
Speaker 1: living in the same village as my auntie and
Speaker 1: uncle for two years and I've not gone
Speaker 1: around see him and I haven't seen them for
Speaker 1: fucking years.
Speaker 1: So my parents on Christmas Eve to see them
Speaker 1: and and it's my dad's older sister and it
Speaker 1: basically looked like my dad, shorter and
Speaker 1: fatter, with a black wig.
Speaker 1: Amazing it was incredible.
Speaker 1: I will show you the picture sometime.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: But I did a family thing and I was really
Speaker 1: proud of myself for doing a Christmas
Speaker 1: family thing and not seeing a family member
Speaker 1: for many years.
Speaker 1: So I kind of relate to this as well.
Speaker 3: My dad is one of seven and my mum was one
Speaker 3: of seven, so I've quite big family, lots of
Speaker 3: cousins.
Speaker 3: So particularly when we were younger,
Speaker 3: christmases were very, very busy like this.
Speaker 3: Like home alone, I was related to the home
Speaker 3: alone family dynamic because this there was
Speaker 3: always so many of us in the house.
Speaker 3: In fact the first time I watched home alone
Speaker 3: was with about six or seven of my cousins.
Speaker 3: We all watched it together as kids but I've
Speaker 3: lost sort of contact with them all over the
Speaker 3: years but reconnected recently with a few
Speaker 3: of them and I had the same thing with my
Speaker 3: dad's brother.
Speaker 3: He'll hadn't seen for a good 15 years.
Speaker 3: Him and his wife, my auntie, came around
Speaker 3: and they met the kids.
Speaker 3: So I was just staring at him thinking
Speaker 3: you're my dad, but you're bold and you've
Speaker 3: got a moustache.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's.
Speaker 3: The only difference is if my dad shaved his
Speaker 3: hair and grew a moustache and then when he
Speaker 3: left my my wife Alice was saying Fucking
Speaker 3: hell, your uncle is is literally just your
Speaker 3: dad with a moustache, isn't he?
Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, he really is.
Speaker 3: It's funny when you see that, isn't it?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, rusty says sorry.
Speaker 3: Clark says Russ, let's go outside and put
Speaker 3: some lights on this house.
Speaker 3: Hell, yeah.
Speaker 3: So we get some funny moments now where he's
Speaker 3: slapstick.
Speaker 1: Nice ladder slapstick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's falling off of ladders.
Speaker 3: He's stapling his hands to things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's classic stuff.
Speaker 1: It's very nice when he really upsets Todd
Speaker 1: and Margot's stereo system.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's brilliant when he because he
Speaker 3: uh explain, explain it well, he slips off
Speaker 3: the ladder because he staples his glove to
Speaker 3: the.
Speaker 3: He's using a big stable gun to staple the
Speaker 3: lights to the gutter, but he slips off the
Speaker 3: ladder, grabs onto the gutter, rips the
Speaker 3: gutter off of the the sort of the side of
Speaker 3: the house which is full of ice.
Speaker 3: This then fires the ice javelin, as I've
Speaker 3: called it in my notes Such a velocity that
Speaker 3: it shoots across the road straight through
Speaker 3: the window of Todd and Margot's.
Speaker 3: Smash is the latest 1988 stereo system.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Which is hilarious because when they get
Speaker 3: home, it's a mystery the mystery is there's
Speaker 3: a hole in the window.
Speaker 3: Well, something must have destroyed the
Speaker 3: stereo Margot the stereo is destroyed and
Speaker 3: then there's a pool of water on the floor.
Speaker 1: I don't understand it.
Speaker 1: And where did this water come from?
Speaker 3: and this this is an urban legend that Are
Speaker 3: you doing?
Speaker 3: No, no, they found Someone's dog was found
Speaker 3: dead in the garden or in the house yeah, in
Speaker 3: the house.
Speaker 3: And there was a puddle of human piss next
Speaker 3: to it and a hole in the ceiling.
Speaker 3: And they realized that an aeroplane had
Speaker 3: flushed or discarded its toilet waste.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, it's an urban
Speaker 3: legend, I could say.
Speaker 3: And apparently the urine froze yeah, I know
Speaker 3: the way down smash through the window, kill
Speaker 3: the dog and then unfroze and they tested it
Speaker 3: and it's like well, it's not dog piss, it's
Speaker 3: human piss, multiple human pisses, what?
Speaker 3: And they couldn't figure out for ages, and
Speaker 3: it's kind of dog and the human piss.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I don't know, I don't believe that
Speaker 3: that's a real thing, but yeah, it's a, it's
Speaker 3: fun and it's a fun thing and it's another
Speaker 3: moment for them Of something bad happened
Speaker 3: to them, because we don't like these
Speaker 3: yuppies, because they don't like our clarky,
Speaker 3: but it's funny, it's funny.
Speaker 1: He goes to turn the lights on everyone
Speaker 1: there.
Speaker 1: Let's do a drum beat.
Speaker 3: And he gives us, he does a speech, doesn't
Speaker 3: he?
Speaker 3: He says, um, he says something along the
Speaker 3: lines of I'm so grateful to have you all
Speaker 3: here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I dedicate this house to my
Speaker 3: entire family of griswolds, because that
Speaker 3: the lights on this house demonstrate my
Speaker 3: love and he does draw to the world, like
Speaker 3: you say, plugs it in what happens nothing,
Speaker 3: nothing happens.
Speaker 3: Uh, it is a check, all that.
Speaker 1: Is parent and also just like see what a
Speaker 1: waste of time this is kids.
Speaker 1: What a way I she says resources.
Speaker 3: I hate me for learning what a waste of
Speaker 3: resources this is.
Speaker 3: And, um, yeah.
Speaker 3: His daughter says he worked really hard,
Speaker 3: grandpa.
Speaker 3: And his grandpa says yeah, and so do
Speaker 3: washing machines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a bastard.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: They all go back in.
Speaker 1: He's kind of pissed off and so leave it,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, for fuck's sake.
Speaker 3: His son says really good, try dad, you did
Speaker 3: really well.
Speaker 3: And they can't figure he's, he's probably
Speaker 3: checked all the bulbs.
Speaker 1: It's very interesting on the front cover.
Speaker 1: I'll get over the blu-ray.
Speaker 1: That doesn't actually happen.
Speaker 3: No, it doesn't does it.
Speaker 1: I've always thought that, never liked that
Speaker 1: post, so no where, cherry chase on the
Speaker 1: front in a Santa costume and he's been
Speaker 1: electrocuted by the light bulbs which would
Speaker 1: imagine, unless it's a deleted scene, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but where'd you get the idea
Speaker 1: from?
Speaker 3: To me that looks more like um the poster
Speaker 3: for the Santa Claus with Tim Allen.
Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: It's not, it doesn't look, it's not even
Speaker 1: cherry chase.
Speaker 3: It's just, someone's just drawn that up and
Speaker 3: it doesn't look good.
Speaker 3: I've never liked that poster.
Speaker 3: No, um, yeah, it's all family supportive.
Speaker 3: We go back inside and the children have to
Speaker 3: sleep together.
Speaker 3: So Russ and his sister have to sleep in the
Speaker 3: same bed because all the grandparents are
Speaker 3: sleeping in their beds.
Speaker 3: Um, not great situation.
Speaker 3: And it's only gonna get worse when cousin
Speaker 3: Eddie turns up.
Speaker 3: Um, yeah, and in the morning he goes back
Speaker 3: up into the attic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he's a great dad and he wants
Speaker 3: to hide the presents in the usual hiding
Speaker 3: spot.
Speaker 3: This is where he finds the Mother's Day
Speaker 3: gift that he bought for um Ellen many years
Speaker 3: ago from one of the kids.
Speaker 3: However, his mother-in-law locks him in the
Speaker 3: attic and they will go out for lunch.
Speaker 3: In fact, his father-in-law says well, I
Speaker 3: don't care about Clark, I gotta go out to
Speaker 3: lunch to take some Uh, to have something to
Speaker 3: eat, because I can't take my pain relief
Speaker 3: without eating.
Speaker 3: So they all go off and they leave him
Speaker 3: stranded in his pajamas in the attic, which
Speaker 3: obviously it's very snowy and it's very
Speaker 3: cold.
Speaker 3: Can we?
Speaker 3: get a little bit more slapstick here.
Speaker 1: Why.
Speaker 1: I guess he's trying to be this traditionist
Speaker 1: and that kind of explains it, but it's like
Speaker 1: who's gonna be looking for presents you
Speaker 1: mentalist?
Speaker 1: Why don't you just go put them under the
Speaker 1: tree?
Speaker 3: He just wants to keep it a nice surprise.
Speaker 1: That is trying to do.
Speaker 1: I think showing that old present though
Speaker 1: he'd forgotten which is up there, is
Speaker 1: obviously showing that it's a tradition
Speaker 1: that he does on it and he just wants to
Speaker 1: keep that.
Speaker 1: But it's just like there's no surprise.
Speaker 1: Just put them in the fucking under the tree.
Speaker 3: Well, my theory is this is that every time
Speaker 3: he questions whether he's doing the right
Speaker 3: thing, taking all these people in and
Speaker 3: trying to have this big family Christmas
Speaker 3: excuse me he gets a life lesson given to
Speaker 3: him from the universe.
Speaker 3: Now the life lesson here is he's locked in
Speaker 3: the attic, he goes through loads of old
Speaker 3: boxes and obviously he wraps himself up in
Speaker 3: old city clothes to keep warm.
Speaker 3: But he also finds all the old film footage
Speaker 3: Christmas 1955.
Speaker 3: He starts crying when he reminds himself of
Speaker 3: the fun Christmas this is had with his mum
Speaker 3: and his dad and his aunties and the kids
Speaker 3: when they were younger.
Speaker 3: And this is the universe saying look, just
Speaker 3: stop and take a moment and remember how
Speaker 3: great Christmas can be with the family.
Speaker 3: You know, I know this seems quite
Speaker 3: pressurised, but look, and so he starts
Speaker 3: crying because he remembers, because he's
Speaker 3: such a good guy and such a family man.
Speaker 3: And I think that's what my theory is is
Speaker 3: that you know he's reminded here at this
Speaker 3: point.
Speaker 3: So he's got a new lease of life.
Speaker 1: I think it's a reason to show that.
Speaker 1: So it's a good set up for that, I suppose.
Speaker 1: But it's just like, why are you putting a
Speaker 1: hide them in a loft?
Speaker 1: But anyway anyway, it does help with some
Speaker 1: slapstick, with him falling down the loft,
Speaker 1: but they come back.
Speaker 3: Well, the comedy timing is he sat there
Speaker 3: crying watching this and then all of a
Speaker 3: sudden his wife opens the attic and he sat
Speaker 3: on the loft hatch and falls out.
Speaker 3: So it's great comic timing.
Speaker 1: It's quite a cheesy montage when he's
Speaker 1: looking at the footage and stuff.
Speaker 1: That's just me now, but you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I love it.
Speaker 3: I know you say that's the difference
Speaker 3: between you and me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, it's pretty fucking cheesy
Speaker 1: but yeah, but yeah, I've written here.
Speaker 3: it inspires him to try and be better and
Speaker 3: try and be even nicer to his family, even
Speaker 3: though he's already fucking nice enough, if
Speaker 3: you ask me.
Speaker 1: He tries his lights again that evening and
Speaker 1: they come on, but then they go off and then
Speaker 1: they come on.
Speaker 3: And he's getting more and more frustrated
Speaker 3: here because he can't figure out why they,
Speaker 3: and the reason being is that one of his
Speaker 3: in-laws keeps going in the attic and
Speaker 3: whenever she turns the light on it that
Speaker 3: ridiculous adapters all plugged up like a
Speaker 3: pyramid.
Speaker 3: It's about a hundred adapters plugged into
Speaker 3: one extension.
Speaker 1: It's like that one spark and you're gone.
Speaker 3: And we get a fun moment now where, when it
Speaker 3: does turn on, the floodlights come on and
Speaker 3: blind his neighbours who are in the middle
Speaker 3: of a back to get down to some saucy
Speaker 3: sexiness.
Speaker 3: But they then smash their bottle of wine
Speaker 3: all over the floor.
Speaker 3: Then the lights go off, so they're blinded.
Speaker 3: Then they come back on and he falls down
Speaker 3: the stairs.
Speaker 3: Basically they destroy their house because
Speaker 3: they're blinded by Chevy Chase's
Speaker 3: floodlights.
Speaker 1: Clark, clark, just being Clark somehow
Speaker 1: destroys their life pretty much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just being Clark.
Speaker 1: Just being Clark and they just happen to
Speaker 1: not like him.
Speaker 1: So that's what I think the message there is
Speaker 1: don't dislike your neighbour because
Speaker 1: accidentally he will ruin your life.
Speaker 3: There's a very John Hughes moment here
Speaker 3: where he just before the lights come on
Speaker 3: properly because his wife saves the day,
Speaker 3: ellen is the one who figures out his switch,
Speaker 3: but just before that he kicks the shit out
Speaker 3: of a big model, Santa and reindeer.
Speaker 1: He punched reindeer and broke his small
Speaker 1: finger but they kept filming.
Speaker 3: But this also really reminds me of
Speaker 3: something that Steve Martin would do in
Speaker 3: plane tracers and all sorts of videos where
Speaker 3: he loses his shit.
Speaker 3: It's a very John Hughes-type thing and it's
Speaker 3: really funny.
Speaker 3: But then, like we say, ellen saves the day,
Speaker 3: she figures it out, she turns it on, he
Speaker 3: starts hugging them all, one by one, each
Speaker 3: family member Mum, dad, can I call you dad,
Speaker 3: even though you're my father-in-law?
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden he calls an Eddie
Speaker 3: and he doesn't notice it initially and he
Speaker 3: gives him a hug, and then he looks at him
Speaker 3: and goes cousin Eddie, and he's like Clark.
Speaker 1: Looks great Clark.
Speaker 3: Love it and he thinks, what the fuck?
Speaker 3: And then you realise cousin Eddie's there
Speaker 3: with his wife.
Speaker 1: And actually just stands there for a while
Speaker 1: going, eddie, eddie.
Speaker 3: He can't quite believe it.
Speaker 1: And that's his brother-in-law, and Eddie is
Speaker 1: living on the fringe.
Speaker 3: Well, he's not his brother-in-law, he's his
Speaker 3: cousin, isn't he or cousin-in-law or
Speaker 3: something?
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, this is it actually.
Speaker 1: Can you work this out for me then?
Speaker 3: Well, he says well, he's cousin Eddie, so
Speaker 3: I'm guessing he's just his cousin.
Speaker 3: I don't really know.
Speaker 1: Because art is.
Speaker 3: It's father-in-law yeah it's father-in-law.
Speaker 1: So Beverly, the angel's wife, Ellen's mum
Speaker 1: is, so that's Ellen's brother.
Speaker 3: But why is he called cousin Eddie?
Speaker 3: Maybe he should be uncle Eddie, I don't
Speaker 3: know.
Speaker 1: I've never really got that.
Speaker 1: I know it's kind of confusing why he's
Speaker 1: cousin Eddie.
Speaker 3: He's got a great big Rottweiler as well,
Speaker 3: called Snots.
Speaker 3: We call him Snats because he's got a
Speaker 3: problem with the sinuses.
Speaker 3: That's all he does.
Speaker 3: And then he says roll over.
Speaker 3: And you let your uncle Clark stroke your
Speaker 3: belly.
Speaker 3: And he says word of warning, if he starts
Speaker 3: going at your leg, just let him finish.
Speaker 3: All right, just let him finish.
Speaker 1: The common tree for this movie is Randy
Speaker 1: Quaid.
Speaker 1: I wanted to watch it beforehand, but the
Speaker 1: common tree is Randy Quaid.
Speaker 1: Why have they got so many people?
Speaker 1: Randy Quaid, beverly D'Angelo, rusty and
Speaker 1: then Randy Quaid's wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they do everything together Then
Speaker 3: director and then the producer.
Speaker 1: So many people who does what all together?
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Heyman is wife in real life.
Speaker 3: They do everything together.
Speaker 3: They're attached to the hip.
Speaker 1: Oh what Randy Quaid's wife.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, that's why she would have been
Speaker 3: oh sorry, not his real life wife, the woman
Speaker 3: that plays his wife in this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh, sorry, I mis-invited you.
Speaker 1: It just seems a lot of people work.
Speaker 3: And to paint the picture as well Randy, a
Speaker 3: cousin of Eddie, his wife and two children
Speaker 3: and giant Rottweiler.
Speaker 3: They are living in an RV, a recreational
Speaker 3: vehicle that is huge and is parked on
Speaker 3: Clark's driveway.
Speaker 3: It's a real eyesore.
Speaker 3: And he says, clark, if it's all the same
Speaker 3: for you, me and my wife would like to stay
Speaker 3: in the RV because you know it's been a long
Speaker 3: drive and we've got some catching up to do
Speaker 3: in the bedroom, but if you could just have
Speaker 3: the two kids in with you.
Speaker 3: And then he says to his wife don't forget
Speaker 3: the rubber sheets and the gerbils, do you
Speaker 3: think?
Speaker 3: Oh boy.
Speaker 1: I never hear.
Speaker 1: I mean never knew.
Speaker 1: He said gerbils bit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the rubber sheets and the gerbils.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's kidding, but it's a dark
Speaker 1: sense of humour.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say that to Sarah.
Speaker 3: Well, one of my favourite scenes is next,
Speaker 3: where cousin Eddie and Clark are drinking
Speaker 3: eggnog together and he's sort of they're
Speaker 3: chatting away.
Speaker 3: Clark seems very annoyed.
Speaker 1: Can we just take a moment to appreciate
Speaker 1: cousin Eddie's a sweater?
Speaker 3: combo.
Speaker 3: Oh man, he's got like this roll neck.
Speaker 1: He's got a turtle neck, a black turtle
Speaker 1: around his neck, so it goes on.
Speaker 1: But it's not a turtle neck, which is a long
Speaker 1: sleeve top underneath a short sleeve top or
Speaker 1: whatever, or sweater, it's just a rectangle
Speaker 1: going down the stops.
Speaker 1: It's almost like a church thing, collar
Speaker 1: piece and he's got this white top on top,
Speaker 1: which is all creamy coloured tops.
Speaker 1: And he's sort of walking around
Speaker 1: accidentally breaking things in Clark's
Speaker 1: house, you know drink as much as he can,
Speaker 1: and he's never been to the house before, so
Speaker 1: he's very excited to be there.
Speaker 3: And he says oh, I'm really excited that
Speaker 3: we're going to be staying here for a whole
Speaker 3: month as well.
Speaker 1: He spits his eggnog out to show he chased
Speaker 1: us because he's not happy about that.
Speaker 3: And he says well, let me know if there's
Speaker 3: anything else I can do for you, eddie, you
Speaker 3: know, maybe drive you out into the middle
Speaker 3: of nowhere and leave you for dead One of my
Speaker 3: favourite lines.
Speaker 3: He just kind of half says it under his
Speaker 3: breath because Eddie's so dumb he doesn't
Speaker 3: really catch it.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's okay, clark, you're doing
Speaker 3: enough as it is.
Speaker 3: Thank you, buddy.
Speaker 1: Someone I know I do this to because, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they have a selective
Speaker 1: hearing, like literally, say something, you
Speaker 1: go to respond.
Speaker 3: I think I know who this is.
Speaker 1: And they just carry on talking and you're
Speaker 1: like what?
Speaker 1: So I will then carry on saying stuff and
Speaker 1: I'll say you fucking don't even listen to
Speaker 1: me, you fucking idiot.
Speaker 1: I'll just carry on going and they won't
Speaker 1: take any of it in.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 3: Well, it's legend time Gav.
Speaker 1: It is legend time, one of my favourite
Speaker 1: highlights as a child in this movie.
Speaker 3: So Clark works for a company that makes
Speaker 3: food products and one of the products
Speaker 3: they've made is this really good grease or
Speaker 3: oil for your pan for cooking, and he
Speaker 3: basically smothers this sort of dustbin lid,
Speaker 3: metal dustbin lid in it Because he says
Speaker 3: this will make it go 100 times faster, and
Speaker 3: his kids are all excited.
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, wow, you're going to go
Speaker 3: really fast, eddie.
Speaker 3: And he's sorry Clark, and he says, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah, you watched me, I'll go first to make
Speaker 3: sure it's okay.
Speaker 1: Well, well, well, randy doesn't want to
Speaker 1: because he's got a metal plate in his head,
Speaker 1: but the metal plate had a problem not long
Speaker 1: ago as an accident and that changed metal
Speaker 1: plate in this other stuff, which is a
Speaker 1: little bit softer, and if you really push
Speaker 1: in there, push it, it can feel my brain.
Speaker 3: Have a little push.
Speaker 3: Well, he says it's because basically
Speaker 3: whenever my wife would use the microwave
Speaker 3: I'd pass out and piss myself, so we had to
Speaker 3: replace the metal plates.
Speaker 3: It wasn't very good really, and it's like
Speaker 3: wow, okay.
Speaker 3: And also earlier, his daughter.
Speaker 3: He says this is my daughter.
Speaker 3: You remember her?
Speaker 3: Look at her eyes.
Speaker 3: Her eyes aren't crossed anymore.
Speaker 3: So funny she fell down a well.
Speaker 3: Her eyes got crossed.
Speaker 3: She got kicked in the head by a mule.
Speaker 3: It uncrossed her eyes.
Speaker 3: So this family are just a bunch of kids.
Speaker 1: It kind of gives you an impression.
Speaker 1: I remember years ago as a younger person
Speaker 1: just like imagining these dudes living out
Speaker 1: in nowhere and just doing like running
Speaker 1: around playing with snakes for the fun to
Speaker 1: do.
Speaker 3: Getting kicked in the head by a donkey Just
Speaker 3: you know, and just random stuff, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, he climbs onto this greased up,
Speaker 3: dust-binded sledge and he says right, I
Speaker 3: think he says like surfs up, dude, catch
Speaker 3: you on the flipside.
Speaker 3: He tries to be all cool and say this like
Speaker 3: surf, dude talk.
Speaker 3: And then we get this ridiculous sort of
Speaker 3: special effect of him just a lightning
Speaker 3: flying down at light speed and there's like
Speaker 3: fire behind him, like back to the future
Speaker 3: car, and he ends up sort of crashing into a
Speaker 3: bin outside the Walmart.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's just another chance just to
Speaker 3: show a silly scene.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's a series of sketches.
Speaker 3: Not a lot comes from it really.
Speaker 1: It is what it is.
Speaker 1: It's kind of fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is fun.
Speaker 3: Like you said, there's a scene that
Speaker 3: everybody likes in this.
Speaker 3: Really, there's always.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone's got their favorite
Speaker 3: scene Cut to nighttime and he's dreaming
Speaker 3: about his bonus.
Speaker 3: He's stood in the kitchen on his own the
Speaker 3: rest of the family, obviously and he's
Speaker 3: looking out the window, looking at the
Speaker 3: garden, imagining what it'll be like when
Speaker 3: that pool's there, and he's imagining all
Speaker 3: of his family and their swimming outfits.
Speaker 3: They're all really happy with him.
Speaker 3: He's the hero because he's bought a
Speaker 3: swimming pool.
Speaker 3: And then his fantasy goes a little
Speaker 3: different, doesn't it Gav?
Speaker 1: Well, he's watching all his family.
Speaker 1: Then he says cousin Eddie, he's standing
Speaker 1: over his beer and vest tucked into his but
Speaker 1: she's mug-less.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's swimming trunks and just waving
Speaker 3: to him, and then it just changes to the
Speaker 3: lady in the laundry or the department store
Speaker 3: and she starts stripping off for him and
Speaker 3: he's watching up against the kitchen window,
Speaker 3: really pushed up against the window, and
Speaker 3: then all of a sudden his little knee spooks
Speaker 3: in and interrupts him.
Speaker 1: I think he's full of Christmas because he's
Speaker 1: in a red dressing gown.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she starts talking to him about
Speaker 3: Santa and this is where it's revealed that
Speaker 3: actually cousin Eddie and his family are in
Speaker 3: a really bad time.
Speaker 1: And that's why they're there.
Speaker 3: They've got no money.
Speaker 3: I don't even think we've got money for
Speaker 3: presents.
Speaker 3: I was told that there's no Father Christmas,
Speaker 3: there's no Santa Claus.
Speaker 3: But is that true?
Speaker 3: Uncle Clarkney says, look, if you believe
Speaker 3: in something and it will happen, I promise
Speaker 3: you, you guys are going to have a great.
Speaker 3: So again, life's got him down a bit, but it
Speaker 3: gets reminded by this little girl that
Speaker 3: there is a magic to Christmas and he can
Speaker 3: make her a Christmas.
Speaker 3: If he helps him, his cousin Eddie and his
Speaker 3: wife and kids out, it's going to make him
Speaker 3: feel better about things.
Speaker 3: So he thinks, right, ok, I'm going to help
Speaker 3: these guys out, because he's too, you know,
Speaker 3: he's too manly to sort of tell me he needs
Speaker 3: help perhaps, so I'm going to just tell him
Speaker 3: I'm going to help him.
Speaker 1: Shit to his fool.
Speaker 3: Well, is that the next bit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, next morning it is the next bit.
Speaker 3: Oh, I was going to say the bit where the
Speaker 3: little girl says about He'll be shitting
Speaker 3: rocks and shitting bricks and he says, oh,
Speaker 3: you shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3: She says, sorry, uncle Clark, he'll be
Speaker 3: shitting rocks.
Speaker 3: She just changes it slowly.
Speaker 3: But yes, the next morning, the yuppies.
Speaker 3: The yuppie, one of the yuppies is leaving
Speaker 3: for a jog and he smells something in the
Speaker 3: air.
Speaker 3: Classic scene.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows this.
Speaker 3: It's the most quieted line from this whole
Speaker 3: film.
Speaker 3: What's he doing?
Speaker 3: I've described it.
Speaker 1: Cousin Eddie's there in his underwear.
Speaker 1: With a beer, a hat and a cigar and a big
Speaker 1: old pipe in his slippers, big old pipe
Speaker 1: emptying his waste, his chemical waste
Speaker 1: toilet, just going all over the place and
Speaker 1: he's smoking a cigar, just doing it like
Speaker 1: it's just kind of having everybody does it,
Speaker 1: and he says shit, it was full.
Speaker 1: Just looks into the neighbors hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: shit, it was full.
Speaker 3: And he's burping away, scratching his ass,
Speaker 3: cigar.
Speaker 3: Somebody says to him you know that stuff's
Speaker 3: flammable, he shouldn't really do that.
Speaker 3: Well, that will come back later on, as we
Speaker 3: expect in a John Hughes film.
Speaker 3: And they go shopping and in the shop Cart
Speaker 3: basically says look, what's been going on
Speaker 3: with you, eddie.
Speaker 3: And this is where Eddie says all right,
Speaker 3: I'll tell you the truth.
Speaker 3: It's been a really rough year.
Speaker 3: We live in the van.
Speaker 3: We don't have a house anymore.
Speaker 3: I haven't even got any money to buy my kids
Speaker 3: presents.
Speaker 3: I don't really know what to do.
Speaker 3: I've kind of come to you really for help,
Speaker 3: but I haven't really been able to ask for
Speaker 3: it.
Speaker 1: But we do know that for seven years he
Speaker 1: hasn't had a job because he's been waiting
Speaker 1: for a managerial position.
Speaker 3: He's been waiting for a management position.
Speaker 1: It's just taking any hand.
Speaker 1: So basically, fuck him, get a job.
Speaker 3: Also, he's got two older children.
Speaker 3: One of them is in a rehab and I can't
Speaker 3: remember what the other one's doing there,
Speaker 3: but they're both got sad stories.
Speaker 3: So their family's really been through the
Speaker 3: ringer.
Speaker 3: Get a job.
Speaker 3: So he says.
Speaker 3: He says similar, okay, I'll tell you what
Speaker 3: I'll do.
Speaker 3: I'd like the opportunity to give you a
Speaker 3: Christmas and I want to get your kids some
Speaker 3: presents.
Speaker 3: And for a couple of seconds Eddie says oh,
Speaker 3: clark, I can't, I can't do that.
Speaker 3: And then he pulls out a giant list out of
Speaker 3: his pocket and says wow, well, here's a
Speaker 3: list of all the things that we need and I'd
Speaker 3: like to get this from my wife.
Speaker 3: And also I'd like to get you something,
Speaker 3: clark, if I could, something really special.
Speaker 3: And Clark's thinking for fuck's sake, why
Speaker 3: did I say I'd help him?
Speaker 3: But he's a good guy, gav, he's a good guy.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I understand doing it for the kids now, but
Speaker 1: I'd still be like, why don't you go a
Speaker 1: fucking job?
Speaker 1: That would be my conversation.
Speaker 3: Don't worry about managerial positions for
Speaker 3: me.
Speaker 1: Just get a fucking job.
Speaker 1: If you're flipping burgers, you're still
Speaker 1: fucking working.
Speaker 3: If you can empty a chemical waste toilet,
Speaker 3: you can do anything.
Speaker 3: While smoking a cigar and drinking a beer,
Speaker 3: you can do anything.
Speaker 3: Well, it's December 24th and crazy Auntie
Speaker 3: and Uncle arrive.
Speaker 3: Uncle Louis, Uncle Louis, is it?
Speaker 1: Louis, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Auntie, the crazy old, deaf
Speaker 3: Auntie, and they're ancient, they're like
Speaker 3: 90 years old.
Speaker 1: In real life she's 82 and he was 61.
Speaker 3: And in real life she's very, very famous
Speaker 3: for being the voice of Betty Boop in the
Speaker 3: cartoon.
Speaker 1: Betty Boop.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's not singing.
Speaker 3: No, that's Betty Boop, the rapper, betty
Speaker 3: Boop, the cartoon, as in the boo boo, boo,
Speaker 3: boo boo, that one, you know the one I mean.
Speaker 1: I know, I thought they were both connected.
Speaker 3: I think Betty Boop named herself after
Speaker 3: Betty Boop with a P.
Speaker 3: But Betty Boop is a rapper.
Speaker 3: I was well into her in the 90s.
Speaker 3: Betty Boop, she's cool man.
Speaker 1: I only know one song.
Speaker 3: She had.
Speaker 3: I've got her album on cassette in the
Speaker 3: kitchen.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, Just there you go.
Speaker 3: You didn't expect that on a Christmas
Speaker 3: episode, did you?
Speaker 1: Talking about Betty Boop cassette album.
Speaker 1: You have no.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're crazy, they're deaf.
Speaker 3: He smokes a lot of Stoge's, she keeps
Speaker 3: farting and there's a lot of comedy mishaps
Speaker 3: around those two.
Speaker 3: He accidentally pulls Uncle Lewis's wig off.
Speaker 1: She's basically giving him a Christmas
Speaker 1: present and it's her cat wraps up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how does he get the cat?
Speaker 1: in her books.
Speaker 3: She's meow.
Speaker 3: This presents Meow in.
Speaker 3: Basically, what Auntie does is she hasn't
Speaker 3: got much money, so she just picks things
Speaker 3: from around the house from up somewhere.
Speaker 3: But she gets confused and I think she's
Speaker 3: wrapped her cat up.
Speaker 3: And at this point Eddie comes in and goes
Speaker 3: ah Clark, this one's leaking and it's green.
Speaker 3: And they're like what, why is green?
Speaker 3: And he just sticks his finger in whatever.
Speaker 3: This is Eddie, and he just goes.
Speaker 1: no, he doesn't Beverly Ellen sticks her
Speaker 1: finger in and he sucks her finger.
Speaker 3: That's right, Like a lot and he goes climb.
Speaker 3: It must be a key like pie.
Speaker 1: Imagine that, like just picking up stuff
Speaker 1: around your house and wrapping it up and
Speaker 1: giving it to people, but forgetting what's
Speaker 1: what, and then just giving out people.
Speaker 3: But I think the worst thing here is that
Speaker 3: your cousin Eddie sucks your wife's finger
Speaker 3: in front of you.
Speaker 1: It isn't good.
Speaker 3: But then it's Eddie.
Speaker 3: You know, when you've got Eddie in the
Speaker 3: house, you can just expect anything to
Speaker 3: happen, really.
Speaker 3: So it's dinner time, it's turkey time, gav
Speaker 3: Joy old turkey.
Speaker 3: And again he's like with a tree, like with
Speaker 3: the lights.
Speaker 3: He's got an announcement.
Speaker 1: He says you know, I always remember
Speaker 1: watching this and being like what?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 1: You made a Christmas dinner on Christmas
Speaker 1: Eve.
Speaker 1: What's what Making tomorrow, a Christmas
Speaker 1: dinner?
Speaker 1: Like what?
Speaker 1: So you just gonna let your wife's just
Speaker 1: fucking spend all day in the kitchen?
Speaker 3: Maybe they'll do Well, maybe they'll make
Speaker 3: Bubbling Squeak on Christmas Day.
Speaker 3: So he gives his big speech about the turkey
Speaker 3: and he says but because this is auntie's
Speaker 3: 80th birthday, a very special one, I'd like
Speaker 3: you to say grace.
Speaker 3: And she goes Grace, no, grace died 25 years
Speaker 3: ago.
Speaker 3: No, she wants you the blessing Old cut old
Speaker 3: shenanigans.
Speaker 3: And so she then says I pledge allegiance to
Speaker 3: the flag of the United States of America
Speaker 3: because she doesn't know what's going on,
Speaker 3: because I know he stands up and salutes and
Speaker 3: eventually we cut the turkey.
Speaker 3: Gav describe what happens when he puts the
Speaker 3: knife into the turkey.
Speaker 1: It just all breaks open.
Speaker 1: It's nothing, it's just dried up inside the
Speaker 1: fridge.
Speaker 1: That was great.
Speaker 1: It's just how did they do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's a special effect, isn't
Speaker 3: it?
Speaker 1: But it's not that I was like how would you
Speaker 1: cook something in it?
Speaker 3: She cooked it out for too long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the outside was fresh, though
Speaker 1: that's the thing we do have.
Speaker 1: The outside in Klingville was I Do.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But again he's so optimistic he says no, no,
Speaker 3: no, I'm sure this will be fine, it's just a
Speaker 3: little dry, that's all.
Speaker 3: And then he goes oh, I can see the heart.
Speaker 3: And then it cuts to them or really try and
Speaker 3: chew and all you can hear is crunching and
Speaker 3: chewing and they're all drinking water and
Speaker 3: pouring gravy over it, apart from Eddie
Speaker 3: who's like eating all the potatoes and
Speaker 3: everything he can, because it's just
Speaker 3: because of Eddie.
Speaker 3: And yeah, the turkey is absolutely
Speaker 3: disgusting.
Speaker 3: I think they find a cat hair in it as well,
Speaker 3: don't they?
Speaker 3: Or something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's awful.
Speaker 3: And talking to the cat, we do see the cat
Speaker 3: now being attracted to the tree, playing
Speaker 3: with the ball balls, and then it grabs the
Speaker 3: fairy lights out of the tree.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It takes them under a chair to play with
Speaker 3: them.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So we'll come back to that in just a moment.
Speaker 3: Love this moment Again.
Speaker 3: Clark trying his best to help cousin
Speaker 3: Eddie's kids.
Speaker 3: He says oh guys, I just heard an
Speaker 3: announcement on the news that a pilot
Speaker 3: flying in from New York City just spotted
Speaker 3: Santa flying over in his sleigh.
Speaker 3: And they all go, wow.
Speaker 3: And what does cousin Eddie say?
Speaker 1: Are you really real Clark?
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 3: Clark, I really believe that.
Speaker 3: So sweet that he tries to do that.
Speaker 3: And then we get the dog underneath the
Speaker 3: table.
Speaker 3: The whole table starts by breaking.
Speaker 1: He says is there?
Speaker 1: He's not choking up stuff that he's been
Speaker 1: eating.
Speaker 1: He's been rummaging through the bins in the
Speaker 1: kitchen.
Speaker 3: He says he's just yakking on a bone.
Speaker 3: Then you hear a bleh and he goes there,
Speaker 3: he's got it up.
Speaker 3: So the dog threw it up on the table.
Speaker 3: He smashed the trash can in the kitchen so
Speaker 3: there's food everywhere.
Speaker 3: And while they're cleaning that up, uncle
Speaker 3: Lewis says if you're not doing anything
Speaker 3: productive, could you get me one of my
Speaker 3: stovies?
Speaker 3: So they give him his cigar and he likes it
Speaker 3: near the tree and the whole tree goes up.
Speaker 3: He doesn't even notice he's done it.
Speaker 1: The cat's been electrocuted as well.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I forgot where that cat has been
Speaker 3: electrocuted.
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, uncle Lewis turns
Speaker 3: around and his back's on fire.
Speaker 3: So they jump on him, stop, drop and roll
Speaker 3: him with a rug and put him out.
Speaker 3: And then they realise what's that smell.
Speaker 3: They pull the armchair away and there's
Speaker 3: what used to be a cat underneath the
Speaker 3: armchair.
Speaker 3: That's just completely fried.
Speaker 3: And the next shot is just cousin Eddie and
Speaker 3: Clark taking this burn armchair outside.
Speaker 1: And Clark and Eddie saying, if you don't
Speaker 1: mind, clark, I think I could probably clean
Speaker 1: this up a little bit.
Speaker 1: Actually.
Speaker 3: Do you want me to ask him how much?
Speaker 3: It was brand new?
Speaker 3: I think I can refurbish it for you, but he
Speaker 3: wants it for himself, really, doesn't he?
Speaker 3: Poor old Clark, it's not going right and
Speaker 3: you can see now the mental breakdown is
Speaker 3: starting to happen now.
Speaker 3: It's just starting to happen ever so
Speaker 3: slightly.
Speaker 3: He gets a delivery from work now, because
Speaker 3: he's found out that all his colleagues have
Speaker 3: already had their deliveries.
Speaker 3: Where's my check?
Speaker 3: And this guy turns up and says look, I'm
Speaker 3: really sorry, I was supposed to deliver
Speaker 3: this to you yesterday, but the envelope
Speaker 3: slipped down the back of the seat.
Speaker 3: But here it is and Clark thinks right, this
Speaker 3: is my chance.
Speaker 3: It's all falling apart, the cat's dead, the
Speaker 3: tree's gone, but I'm going to tell my
Speaker 3: family about this one before.
Speaker 3: And he says everybody, this envelope
Speaker 3: contains the check, my bonus check, and I
Speaker 3: wasn't going to tell any of you this till
Speaker 3: tomorrow, but I'm going to buy some in Paul,
Speaker 3: I've already put the money down for a
Speaker 3: deposit.
Speaker 3: And they're all like wow, this is
Speaker 3: incredible.
Speaker 3: Mums Like Clark, you're the best, I love
Speaker 3: you.
Speaker 3: And he says and I'll tell you what, if
Speaker 3: there's enough money left over, I'll fly
Speaker 3: you all out here in the summer and we'll
Speaker 3: have a great time.
Speaker 3: And they're like oh wow, this is amazing.
Speaker 3: He opens the envelope and it's a year
Speaker 3: subscription to a jam or a jelly as they
Speaker 3: call it in the US of the month club.
Speaker 3: So basically, you're getting a jar of jam
Speaker 3: if you're in the UK every month for a year.
Speaker 3: Wow, and the only person who thinks it's
Speaker 3: amazing is Eddie.
Speaker 3: He's like that is the gift that keeps on
Speaker 3: giving it.
Speaker 1: keeps on giving Clark.
Speaker 3: But he is guided because that was going to
Speaker 3: be the swimming pool.
Speaker 3: What can he do?
Speaker 3: No bonus.
Speaker 3: So he starts losing it.
Speaker 3: He starts necking eggnog now and he gives a
Speaker 3: big speech.
Speaker 3: Now he says what do?
Speaker 3: You know what I really want?
Speaker 3: I want my boss right here with a big red
Speaker 3: bow on him, so I can tell him what an
Speaker 3: asshole he is.
Speaker 3: And he calls him, he starts swearing, he
Speaker 3: says everything under the sun.
Speaker 1: Apparently, the other actors had signs
Speaker 1: around the necks with just words on
Speaker 1: swearing words.
Speaker 1: So if you watch him, he's looking up,
Speaker 1: looking, in case you look up at words.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he loses it and the family you know,
Speaker 3: upset with him.
Speaker 3: Cousin Eddie drives off in his RV.
Speaker 3: We don't understand why.
Speaker 3: Initially Clark goes out and says I'm going
Speaker 3: to get it.
Speaker 3: This is it.
Speaker 3: Now the mental breakdown has started.
Speaker 3: He gets his chainsaw, he cuts down just a
Speaker 3: random tree in the front yard and brings it
Speaker 3: inside.
Speaker 3: It's why it's like honey, are you okay?
Speaker 3: He's like I'm fine.
Speaker 3: It goes on as he's walking across the
Speaker 3: landing.
Speaker 3: The top of the banister is a bit loose.
Speaker 3: Just cut us off with the chainsaw.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: Though this is where he has a mental
Speaker 1: breakdown and unfortunately, as much as I
Speaker 1: like to find it funny, now looking at it
Speaker 1: I'm like oh God, because I've had a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks go off.
Speaker 1: Oh God, I was having a little one and it's
Speaker 1: not the nicest of feelings, gonna tell you.
Speaker 1: So you watch it now looking at that like
Speaker 1: that's like oh God, that's actually kind of
Speaker 1: dark.
Speaker 1: Next time watching, we're like oh God, he's
Speaker 1: having a mental breakdown.
Speaker 1: It's not the fun.
Speaker 3: That's not a fun thing.
Speaker 3: Then they realized that there's a squirrel
Speaker 3: in the tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just to add to the commotion.
Speaker 3: And he says get my hammer.
Speaker 1: Well, when he cuts it down, todd and Margot,
Speaker 1: get us.
Speaker 1: I said, do you?
Speaker 1: Think we should have got a Christmas tree
Speaker 1: this year, I don't know, they're a bit
Speaker 1: cheesy and corny, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: through the window just comes the end of
Speaker 1: the tree.
Speaker 3: He says where would we even get a tree?
Speaker 1: This is our own Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1: And a tree comes through the window.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's destroying their Christmas
Speaker 3: again.
Speaker 3: He gets his, he wants his hammer.
Speaker 3: Great scene with the squirrels on his back.
Speaker 3: When he turns around and says where is it?
Speaker 3: I think he might have left, but it's on his
Speaker 3: back Chases them around the house a bit.
Speaker 3: The dog runs around with them a bit.
Speaker 3: It's all very slapstick, but it's fantastic
Speaker 3: stuff.
Speaker 3: And then the dog chases the squirrel, the
Speaker 3: woman Yuppie, what's her name?
Speaker 3: Margot, margot.
Speaker 3: Margot says to Todd, march on over there
Speaker 3: and punch him in his face.
Speaker 1: He's like I can't just go over, you're not
Speaker 1: man enough to do it, and I will.
Speaker 1: And she stomps on over there and bangs the
Speaker 1: door, but she doesn't know there's a rock,
Speaker 1: wiler, I've chased the squirrel around the
Speaker 1: house inside, so she gets her face full of
Speaker 1: squirrel.
Speaker 3: And then a fucking face full of wiler.
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the weight of those dudes,
Speaker 1: she goes back to to Todd and he's.
Speaker 3: he's such a chicken shit because he's let
Speaker 3: her go over there and she goes back.
Speaker 3: All her clothes are ripped, she's got
Speaker 3: bruises and cuts.
Speaker 3: She fucking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what happens to you?
Speaker 3: So she knocks him out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, good for her.
Speaker 3: We get a second big round here now because
Speaker 3: they're planning on leaving.
Speaker 3: And he says where do you think you're going?
Speaker 3: Nobody's leaving, nobody's walking out on
Speaker 3: this fun, old fashioned family Christmas.
Speaker 3: We're all in this together.
Speaker 3: He says this is a full blown four alarm
Speaker 3: holiday emergency.
Speaker 3: And he's like we are saying to get this
Speaker 3: down, gives him a bit of a pep talk.
Speaker 3: And he says look, you're a great dad and
Speaker 3: you're better than this.
Speaker 3: Everybody's a bit upset with you because
Speaker 3: you've been shouting at everyone.
Speaker 3: He like brings him back down to earth.
Speaker 3: He says you know we need to.
Speaker 3: It's fine, you know.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden he says that to
Speaker 3: his he reads the night before Christmas,
Speaker 3: doesn't he?
Speaker 3: He says, all right, let's read this.
Speaker 3: So they all sit around it's a cute moment.
Speaker 3: It was the night before Christmas and all
Speaker 3: through the house and he starts reading it
Speaker 3: to them again.
Speaker 3: Gav, it's a tradition.
Speaker 1: It's funny because I had to do it to
Speaker 1: Charlie Insisted days.
Speaker 1: He was like OK.
Speaker 1: And every Christmas whatever, but for her
Speaker 1: to do it, and I do it in there like it's
Speaker 1: just.
Speaker 1: He does it every year.
Speaker 1: Come on, this is all right, come down.
Speaker 3: But as he gets towards the end of the story
Speaker 3: he says oh, there was a man in the pajamas
Speaker 3: with handcuffs and cousin Eddie, what's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 3: And cousin Eddie took his words literally
Speaker 3: and went and kidnapped his boss and it's
Speaker 3: brought him back to his house with a big
Speaker 3: red ribbon on him, kicks him in the living
Speaker 3: room and he says oh, it's you, chris, and
Speaker 3: he's like, it's Clark, chris Ward, he's
Speaker 3: like.
Speaker 3: That's what I meant.
Speaker 3: And so they have this impression of us.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 3: And they sort of have this backwards and
Speaker 3: forwards and he says, she says, oh, I'm so
Speaker 3: sorry, it's our family's first kidnapping.
Speaker 3: And eventually the boss comes to realize
Speaker 3: that the little people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the people, it's the little people
Speaker 1: that matter really.
Speaker 3: And he's he's given them all a year
Speaker 3: subscription to a jelly of the club, jelly
Speaker 3: of the month club, whereas they used to get,
Speaker 3: like, this giant bonus.
Speaker 3: And something I really believe here, which
Speaker 3: a lot of companies don't do, is Clark says
Speaker 3: people come to rely on their Christmas
Speaker 3: bonuses as part of their salary, and you
Speaker 3: can't just drop it.
Speaker 3: I've worked for you, for I think he says,
Speaker 3: like 17 years or something, I've had a
Speaker 3: bonus every year and you just decide this
Speaker 3: one year.
Speaker 3: No, it would know, like you know there's,
Speaker 3: you don't give us any warning.
Speaker 3: And he says oh, maybe I've been a bit of an
Speaker 3: asshole, but just as they come to this
Speaker 3: moment, the police sort of storm the house,
Speaker 3: these guys swat team start kicking the
Speaker 3: windows in, and they hold everybody at
Speaker 3: gunpoint.
Speaker 3: First of all, though, they do take.
Speaker 3: They do kick in Todd and Margot's house,
Speaker 3: don't they?
Speaker 3: Of course they do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they come inside and he says I don't
Speaker 3: want to press the.
Speaker 3: I don't want to press charges.
Speaker 3: I can't do it again, he says.
Speaker 3: But I've come to realize I've been a bit of
Speaker 3: a dick.
Speaker 3: And his wife says don't tell me you didn't
Speaker 3: give yourself a bonus this year.
Speaker 1: And he's like, yeah, why did his wife not
Speaker 1: get dressed For?
Speaker 1: The house is the weirdest fucking thing.
Speaker 1: It's like you, honestly, a couple of
Speaker 1: minutes you could put something on just
Speaker 1: your underwear.
Speaker 1: It's very bizarre.
Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe she, maybe she's been in
Speaker 3: saucy.
Speaker 3: Yes, his boss isn't pressing charges.
Speaker 3: Everything seems fine.
Speaker 3: And then, of course, someone likes to cigar
Speaker 3: outside.
Speaker 3: How does the flame?
Speaker 3: Where's the Lewis?
Speaker 1: lights, and this is Stoge and it.
Speaker 3: Let's not forget that Santa Claus and
Speaker 3: reindeer is the model is that on top of the
Speaker 3: sewer where a cousin of he's been pumping
Speaker 3: his shit and when Lewis that's the
Speaker 3: expression Lewis lights his cigar and that
Speaker 3: Santa Claus explodes and flies off and the
Speaker 3: kids look at me and they go look Santa and
Speaker 3: it's just the reindeer flying through the
Speaker 3: air on fire.
Speaker 3: The model Santa goes flying and Clark says
Speaker 3: I did it and it's going to get a swimming
Speaker 3: pool.
Speaker 3: The music plays with Christmas.
Speaker 3: So, you sound like the guy that sings the
Speaker 3: Toy Story songs, you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: You got a friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's the end.
Speaker 3: And, like I said to my dad and like I said
Speaker 3: earlier, I'd never related harder to
Speaker 3: somebody in a Christmas film than I have in
Speaker 3: this one, because, you know, I can't relate
Speaker 3: to John McClain, I can't relate to Kevin
Speaker 3: McAllister, but I can relate to Clark
Speaker 3: Griswold trying to hold it all together
Speaker 3: while your family, especially when there's
Speaker 3: a lot of family members that's what me and
Speaker 3: Alice did a very low key one this year,
Speaker 3: which was me and her and the kids.
Speaker 3: Last year there was 11 of us at my in-laws
Speaker 3: and it was chaos.
Speaker 3: It was so many people.
Speaker 3: It sounds too much, it's just hell.
Speaker 3: I love you all if you're listening, which
Speaker 3: you're not, but it is too many, you know,
Speaker 3: and everyone's sort of worried about what
Speaker 3: everyone else is doing and thinking Whereas,
Speaker 3: yeah, so Clark Griswold, bless him, I love
Speaker 3: him and this is definitely the best
Speaker 3: National Lampoon's movie, I would say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would say so.
Speaker 3: So there we go.
Speaker 3: Any other thoughts on it?
Speaker 1: No, I think we've got it pretty much.
Speaker 1: I do like this film.
Speaker 1: It's a very entertaining movie and I do
Speaker 1: like trying to watch it, but she is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great one to watch and, like I
Speaker 3: said, I've got very happy memories of
Speaker 3: watching this with you, of all people.
Speaker 3: You know, with an eggnog or whatever, we
Speaker 3: were drinking, probably anything and
Speaker 3: everything we could get our hands on back
Speaker 3: then and, you know, slowly getting a bit
Speaker 3: more drunk is probably on a box in there or
Speaker 3: something.
Speaker 3: We were watching this.
Speaker 3: I don't know when I used to come over.
Speaker 3: I can't remember we used to do fake most,
Speaker 3: didn't we?
Speaker 3: When I come, reigned.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: In between your birthday and New Year, we
Speaker 3: do like another Christmas, or sometimes
Speaker 3: early in December.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, there we go, guys.
Speaker 3: If you haven't seen this, go watch it.
Speaker 3: It's a Christmas film that you can watch
Speaker 3: from sort of November to January, I would
Speaker 3: say.
Speaker 3: But also, if you have seen this, go watch
Speaker 3: it again, because it's definitely worth a
Speaker 3: rewatch.
Speaker 3: Thumbs up from Gav, I should imagine.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely Thumbs up from me,
Speaker 3: and a big old thumbs up from cousin Eddie.
Speaker 3: Save the neck for me.
Speaker 3: Clark, jesus Christ, we know it's deep
Speaker 3: squirrels.
Speaker 1: He says, where's cousin Eddie he usually
Speaker 1: eats these things.
Speaker 3: No, no, he's found out there.
Speaker 1: I ain't cholesterol, so he's taking a break
Speaker 1: from them.
Speaker 1: So shall we come back to see out the show?
Speaker 1: Well, I think we've got a little Mr Murray,
Speaker 1: who wants to chat first, of course, bill.
Speaker 3: Sorry Bill, he didn't mean it.
Speaker 3: No, no, all right then.
Speaker 3: Well, we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: No, no, all right, then we'll come back for
Speaker 1: that, won't we?
Speaker 3: Here's Bill Hi welcome back to World of the
Speaker 3: Strange.
Speaker 3: World of the.
Speaker 3: Strange.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, oh.
Speaker 3: World of the Strange.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much, bill, as always,
Speaker 3: taking time out of your busy Christmas
Speaker 3: schedule to just do the intro and the outro
Speaker 3: of World of the Strange for us.
Speaker 3: We really appreciate you doing it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, I think he's pretty hammered,
Speaker 3: but he's got that mistletoe on his belt.
Speaker 1: He's got that.
Speaker 1: Look he sometimes gives us when he's you
Speaker 1: know, he's a bit horny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: He's got a mistletoe on his belt and he's
Speaker 3: supposed to kiss under the mistletoe when
Speaker 3: that wasn't Eddie's dog.
Speaker 1: when he goes to town on your leg, just let
Speaker 1: him out of it.
Speaker 3: If Bill Murray starts humping your leg,
Speaker 3: garth, just let him finish, let him finish.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't finish, just let him finish.
Speaker 1: It's easier.
Speaker 3: Cut the balls.
Speaker 3: Now I've got a list of similarly to Clark
Speaker 3: Griswold's family, some family Christmas
Speaker 3: has gone wrong, which we probably shouldn't
Speaker 3: laugh at people's misfortunes.
Speaker 3: But these people have posted these online
Speaker 3: because in hindsight, they're laughing at
Speaker 3: the craziness of the situation.
Speaker 3: So I've got a few of these to read to you.
Speaker 1: All right, it's funny.
Speaker 1: Last night they've murdered us.
Speaker 1: Okay, go on then.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 3: The first one says I was opening presents
Speaker 3: with my then boyfriend in front of his huge
Speaker 3: religious family.
Speaker 3: We've been together for some time, do you
Speaker 3: know, and we all thought he's going to
Speaker 3: propose to me.
Speaker 3: They all waited with bated breath and I
Speaker 3: opened the envelope from him and I thought
Speaker 3: he's got, he's put a lot of thought into
Speaker 3: this.
Speaker 3: This is going to be like a clue.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be like a treasure hunt?
Speaker 3: Nope, the envelope contained a gift
Speaker 3: certificate for laser mole removal.
Speaker 3: Wow, laser.
Speaker 1: So there's a mark on someone in the body
Speaker 1: that he doesn't like and he wants it gone
Speaker 1: yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought you'd like this.
Speaker 3: She said I couldn't decide whether to laugh
Speaker 3: or cry, but we broke up a few days later.
Speaker 3: Wow, wow.
Speaker 3: How about that Laser mole removal?
Speaker 3: Here's the next one.
Speaker 3: My uncle got sent a letter, which arrived a
Speaker 3: couple of days before Christmas, from his
Speaker 3: 18 year old son that he didn't know he had.
Speaker 3: He told us it Christmas.
Speaker 1: So say that again.
Speaker 3: My uncle got sent a letter which arrived a
Speaker 3: few days before Christmas.
Speaker 3: He opened it on Christmas morning and
Speaker 3: realized it's from his 18 year old son that
Speaker 3: he didn't know he had.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 3: So he told us all at Christmas.
Speaker 1: It's because at 18, now, they are able to
Speaker 1: go and find their true parents themselves.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas family.
Speaker 3: I've got a kid I didn't know about from 18
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 3: Imagine that I dread the day that a mini
Speaker 3: dad knocks on the door.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be a problem
Speaker 1: with me, ok Well, I just don't think that's
Speaker 1: going to happen.
Speaker 3: Years ago.
Speaker 3: Here's the next one.
Speaker 3: I was dating a guy for a few months.
Speaker 3: Christmas came around and it was that
Speaker 3: awkward time where you'd only been seeing
Speaker 3: each other for a few months.
Speaker 3: So I thought what do I get him?
Speaker 3: Do I get him something nice?
Speaker 3: Do I get him something small?
Speaker 3: So I thought, you know what, I'll splash
Speaker 3: that a bit.
Speaker 3: And I got him a GPS system.
Speaker 3: I thought, you know, it's thoughtful and
Speaker 3: it's useful and it's not too sentimental,
Speaker 3: it's perfect because we were only a few
Speaker 3: months into our relationship.
Speaker 3: Not bad Gav, not bad no.
Speaker 3: So I got him a used MMA magazine that he'd
Speaker 3: read.
Speaker 3: I don't even like MMA.
Speaker 1: Oh no, he realized oh shit, I better give a
Speaker 1: sign Hang on.
Speaker 3: There's more here.
Speaker 3: I don't even like it one little bit.
Speaker 3: Nor have I ever expressed an MMA or even
Speaker 3: talked about it to him.
Speaker 3: I think he, on the other hand, he loved MMA,
Speaker 3: so he tried to move on.
Speaker 3: I said thank you very much.
Speaker 3: I put the magazine down and opened the next
Speaker 3: present from him, which was a DVD that had
Speaker 3: already been opened and the rapper was
Speaker 3: missing.
Speaker 3: He went quiet and then said look, basically
Speaker 3: I got a bit bored yesterday, so I opened
Speaker 3: your DVD and watched it.
Speaker 3: And she said right, and you got me the
Speaker 3: magazine because you wanted to read it.
Speaker 3: And he said well, yeah, basically it was a
Speaker 3: magazine that I've already read and I just
Speaker 3: thought you might like to read it.
Speaker 3: Wow, how lovely, how lovely of him.
Speaker 1: Very nice.
Speaker 3: On to the next one.
Speaker 3: When I was a toddler, we were supposed to
Speaker 3: go to Savannah to visit my mum's family for
Speaker 3: Christmas, but we couldn't.
Speaker 3: My dad said I've lost my wallet.
Speaker 3: It turned out what had actually happened
Speaker 3: was some prostitutes with an S that he'd
Speaker 3: slept with had stolen his money, id cards
Speaker 3: and all of the cocaine he'd been carrying,
Speaker 3: so we ended up going to hot on holiday
Speaker 3: without him.
Speaker 3: Unsurprisingly, my parents were divorced
Speaker 3: later that year.
Speaker 1: So what he went on?
Speaker 1: He's on holiday with his family, but he'd
Speaker 1: been banging prostitutes at sex work.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: He couldn't go on holiday with them.
Speaker 1: Because he lost his wallet because of the
Speaker 1: sex workers at home.
Speaker 3: He said to them I've lost my wallet.
Speaker 3: But it turned out he'd had his wallet
Speaker 3: stolen by some prostitutes who'd also taken
Speaker 3: all of his ID and some cocaine that he'd
Speaker 3: been carrying, and her mum and dad broke up
Speaker 3: many months later.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at least it's white.
Speaker 3: She was a toddler when that happened as
Speaker 3: well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, white Christmas.
Speaker 3: Indeed, she was a toddler when that
Speaker 3: happened as well.
Speaker 1: So it might have been very poor.
Speaker 1: He was banging sex workers as well.
Speaker 1: He had a little kid.
Speaker 3: He had a big old orgy basically.
Speaker 1: He's a nice man then.
Speaker 3: So this was my family, thank God, but one
Speaker 3: of my friends.
Speaker 3: So my uncle, sorry.
Speaker 3: Her uncle got cheating at the dinner table
Speaker 3: when his phone buzzed and her auntie saw
Speaker 3: the message coming in, she started
Speaker 3: screaming and crying and throwing dinner at
Speaker 3: him.
Speaker 3: My friend, her daughter, started to laugh,
Speaker 3: so her mum turned on her and started
Speaker 3: insulting her, saying you'll never get a
Speaker 3: man, You're too ugly.
Speaker 3: Then the mum stands up and started shouting
Speaker 3: at everybody the whole family starts to get
Speaker 3: involved, calling everyone back snobbers
Speaker 3: and lowlifes.
Speaker 3: And then, because I was the friend of the
Speaker 3: family, the mum then turned around to me
Speaker 3: and said and who the fuck are you, you
Speaker 3: intruding bitch On Christmas Day?
Speaker 1: Yes, that was a fun one.
Speaker 3: I've never been back there on.
Speaker 1: Christmas again.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I've done that.
Speaker 1: I have families and all this sort of stuff
Speaker 1: going on, or I don't have family, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Imagine Chevy Chase in these situations as
Speaker 3: well.
Speaker 3: He's just trying to hold it together.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 3: My husband's stepmother gave me a 36 year
Speaker 3: old at the time gave me a kindergarten size
Speaker 3: backpack for Christmas.
Speaker 3: When I opened it she said I actually bought
Speaker 3: that for a child about five years ago but
Speaker 3: the child hated it.
Speaker 3: So it's been in the closet for ages and I
Speaker 3: saw it and thought I know what you're like
Speaker 3: that.
Speaker 3: None of us like it, though.
Speaker 3: We all think it's very ugly, but we think
Speaker 3: you might like it for Christmas.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 3: That same year they gave my three children
Speaker 3: gifts totaling $15.
Speaker 3: All of them still had the for sale stickers
Speaker 3: on them, so they're all bought in a sale.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile she'd bought her biological
Speaker 3: granddaughter a $300 unicorn.
Speaker 3: They made sure we all knew it costs $300.
Speaker 3: They pointed at the sales stickers on all
Speaker 3: of my children's presents and said they
Speaker 3: were great deals, weren't they?
Speaker 3: Then they said now can you all leave the
Speaker 3: room for a moment so that we can have some
Speaker 3: nice pictures with my daughter and her
Speaker 3: unicorn.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 3: What a lovely family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, growing up this is the next one
Speaker 3: growing up, as we always did, we went to my
Speaker 3: auntie and uncle's house for Christmas Eve
Speaker 3: dinner a family tradition.
Speaker 3: It was usually full of a house, full house,
Speaker 3: normally about 35 people, big family gal.
Speaker 1: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: You see we're all sitting down to dinner
Speaker 3: with my auntie.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of cooking.
Speaker 3: It is so my auntie, whose house it was, got
Speaker 3: into an argument with her sister.
Speaker 3: It escalated to the point where they were
Speaker 3: screaming at each other and my sister, my
Speaker 3: cousins and I were being herded into the
Speaker 3: basement to go and play with something and
Speaker 3: try not to listen to the adults yelling.
Speaker 1: Play with something in the basement.
Speaker 3: It ended when my auntie yelled that she was
Speaker 3: sick of the family drama.
Speaker 3: It's time to come clean.
Speaker 3: She announced that my oldest cousin is
Speaker 3: actually not the daughter of my auntie, but
Speaker 3: the daughter of the other auntie.
Speaker 3: Basically, when her auntie got pregnant,
Speaker 3: she was too young and irresponsible to
Speaker 3: raise her, so the other auntie stepped in,
Speaker 3: who's a bit older.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: My Christmas day, revealing this Amazing In
Speaker 3: front of 35 people.
Speaker 3: Happy Christmas, short one.
Speaker 3: One Christmas, my brother and father got
Speaker 3: into a fight.
Speaker 3: The cops had to be called and my brother
Speaker 3: was arrested and spent three months in jail
Speaker 3: beating up my dad.
Speaker 3: So much so her brother beat up her dad.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: The next one is a true Clark Griswold story.
Speaker 3: A few years ago, one of my brothers or
Speaker 3: sisters said something that pissed my mom
Speaker 3: off so much that she just cracked.
Speaker 3: She pushed this Christmas tree over, went
Speaker 3: down to the basement, got a saw, came up
Speaker 3: and started sawing it into tiny pieces in
Speaker 3: front of a saw.
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: A couple more, 2012,.
Speaker 3: My family had reached boiling point that
Speaker 3: year.
Speaker 3: My brother had been kicked out of the army,
Speaker 3: I was a 17-year-old stoner about to drop
Speaker 3: out of school, my parents' marriage was a
Speaker 3: shit show and almost ripe for divorce, and
Speaker 3: my sister was over from the US for the
Speaker 3: holidays.
Speaker 3: The mood was bad.
Speaker 3: In the middle of Christmas dinner, the
Speaker 3: doorbell rang.
Speaker 3: My dad shouted who the fuck disturbs a
Speaker 3: family?
Speaker 3: On Christmas dinner night, we were all
Speaker 3: thinking the same thing Without hesitation,
Speaker 3: my brother gets up from the table and
Speaker 3: disappears for a few minutes.
Speaker 3: After a while, my angry dad stomped out of
Speaker 3: the room and went out to find who the
Speaker 3: unwanted visitor was.
Speaker 3: It was a man buying weed from my brother on
Speaker 3: Christmas Day, on Christmas night.
Speaker 3: You can imagine my dad's reaction.
Speaker 3: Little did we know that if my brother
Speaker 3: hadn't gotten up from the table and ensured
Speaker 3: that my dad would drive off afterwards to
Speaker 3: cool down, that he would have told us of
Speaker 3: his year-long affair that night.
Speaker 3: This is her dad, as well as the child he
Speaker 3: was about to have with his mistress and the
Speaker 3: fact that he was planning on leaving.
Speaker 3: He did actually tell us this a week later,
Speaker 3: on New Year's Eve, though, so that saved
Speaker 3: their Christmas day, but a week later they
Speaker 3: found out that their dad was having a baby
Speaker 3: with another lady.
Speaker 1: Amazing, what a family.
Speaker 3: Two more stories, short ones again.
Speaker 3: I love this one.
Speaker 3: My grandmother went out to the garage to
Speaker 3: smoke a cigarette after Christmas dinner.
Speaker 3: She intentionally slammed her arm in the
Speaker 3: car door, breaking her wrist in the process.
Speaker 3: You might ask why she was drunk.
Speaker 3: She said I wanted to see if my pain
Speaker 3: medication was working.
Speaker 1: Fucking hell.
Speaker 3: So she broke her own wrist in the car door
Speaker 3: to see if her pain medication was working.
Speaker 1: Fucking dickhead.
Speaker 3: We spent Well, no.
Speaker 1: Well, it might have been.
Speaker 3: And even if it was, it doesn't make you
Speaker 3: super human.
Speaker 3: We spent the rest of Christmas night in the
Speaker 3: emergency room, wow, and the last one is
Speaker 3: one involving poo.
Speaker 3: Lovely.
Speaker 3: And a church.
Speaker 3: I went drinking with my friends on the 23rd
Speaker 3: of December.
Speaker 3: The 24th.
Speaker 3: We went to midnight mass.
Speaker 3: Things were going well, but then it
Speaker 3: suddenly hit me.
Speaker 3: I got the shits 10 minutes into the service.
Speaker 3: My guts forced me to let out a silent fart,
Speaker 3: but it had the power to melt candles.
Speaker 3: It was such a bad smell.
Speaker 3: Luckily I got away with it because there
Speaker 3: was a baby nearby and everyone just assumed
Speaker 3: the baby had pooed in its nappy.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 3: Then my gut did another noise and I thought
Speaker 3: oh, I've realized what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: So I had to run, with my butt clenched, to
Speaker 3: the church bathroom.
Speaker 3: There is only one male and one female unit.
Speaker 3: The men's had someone in it, so I ran into
Speaker 3: the women's and I kicked the door open and
Speaker 3: shot myself.
Speaker 3: I looked back to see the damage on my
Speaker 3: trousers.
Speaker 3: Then I realized there was no toilet paper.
Speaker 3: So I took off my jumper and my jacket and
Speaker 3: wiped my ass with my jumper and my jacket.
Speaker 3: I then went outside to wait by my parents
Speaker 3: car.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't you though I know it's a bit more
Speaker 1: disgusting would you use your hand and then
Speaker 1: just wash in the wash basin?
Speaker 1: I know that's kind of disgusting I think
Speaker 1: the diarrhea was so bad.
Speaker 3: I think it was so bad that my hand's not
Speaker 3: just going to get in.
Speaker 1: So it must have been all over the bum
Speaker 1: cheeks.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because he says there.
Speaker 3: I waited outside my parents car in the
Speaker 3: freezing cold in just a t-shirt, because my
Speaker 3: jacket and my jumper were in the bin in the
Speaker 3: toilet.
Speaker 1: The public clears the bin.
Speaker 3: And then my parents came back outside after
Speaker 3: the service.
Speaker 1: Shitty clothes in the bin.
Speaker 3: And they asked me why I had poo all over my
Speaker 3: trousers.
Speaker 3: I told them the whole story.
Speaker 3: They laughed at me the entire way home on
Speaker 3: Christmas Eve night.
Speaker 1: But don't just, don't sit down, yeah.
Speaker 3: You had to lie on the back seats front down,
Speaker 3: I should imagine.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Fuck, hell.
Speaker 3: Well, there we go.
Speaker 1: Nice.
Speaker 3: Clark Griswold.
Speaker 3: I think if I were, to Happy shitmas.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to pick which one of
Speaker 3: those I'm going to be.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to leave it there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Happy shitmas indeed, Bill Bill.
Speaker 3: Take us out, Shall we come back and have
Speaker 3: yourself a very Murray Christmas Boy and a
Speaker 3: happy bill yeah.
Speaker 1: That's all the time we've got for this week
Speaker 1: on World of Strange.
Speaker 1: Next week, though, Gimme iron.
Speaker 1: Hairless pets Weird.
Speaker 1: I'm a back.
Speaker 3: Back again for Christmas time.
Speaker 3: Ten years of podcasting, that's it.
Speaker 3: That's all I've got.
Speaker 3: I haven't got any other lyrics.
Speaker 3: That's what we work on it Excellent.
Speaker 3: Well, merry Christmas and a happy new year
Speaker 3: to you, gavin, to all our listeners, and
Speaker 3: happy tenure anniversary all over again to
Speaker 3: us.
Speaker 3: Fantastic stuff, it's been a wild ride.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very enjoyable.
Speaker 3: National Lampoons and all that business.
Speaker 1: I love putting words in your ears.
Speaker 3: This is the last episode of 2023.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about what the next three
Speaker 3: episodes are going to be as we enter into a
Speaker 3: new year.
Speaker 3: First episode of 2024, episode 147 will be
Speaker 3: a patron pick.
Speaker 3: Patron pick, matthew Godley's, your turn
Speaker 3: again.
Speaker 3: You, as we discussed, have selected Flash
Speaker 3: Gordon and Dead man.
Speaker 3: Shoes, ups and downs, highs and lows there,
Speaker 3: motions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: After that Gav you old git.
Speaker 3: It's your birthday episode 32.
Speaker 3: Episode 100.
Speaker 3: He's only 32, guys Even that sounds old.
Speaker 3: It does really.
Speaker 3: Episode 148, Gav's birthday episode.
Speaker 3: It's going to be Sorcerer 47.
Speaker 3: It's going to be 47.
Speaker 3: He's not really 32.
Speaker 3: Yeah, mugs.
Speaker 1: Sorcerer and Studio 666.
Speaker 3: Sorcerer and Studio 666.
Speaker 1: Two completely different films.
Speaker 3: I've not seen either of them.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 3: And after that will be episode 149.
Speaker 3: And, as mentioned previously, any episode
Speaker 3: we can.
Speaker 3: For the next year.
Speaker 3: We're going to do director specials and
Speaker 3: we're going to kick that off with episode
Speaker 3: 149, which will be an Adam Green special.
Speaker 3: Looking at this relatively newcomer to the
Speaker 3: horror game, he's been around a while now,
Speaker 3: but not yeah, I was going to say it's good
Speaker 3: 20 years it's still fresh-ish.
Speaker 3: We're going to be covering two of his films
Speaker 3: Frozen not the Disney thing, a long musical
Speaker 3: thing, the one where they're in the ski
Speaker 3: lift and Digging Up the Marrow.
Speaker 3: A bit of Ray Wise in your life there.
Speaker 1: And I actually know a lot about Adam Green
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, that's what's going to be fun to
Speaker 3: discuss.
Speaker 3: So that's what we're doing next, patron Pit,
Speaker 3: gav's birthday and an Adam Green special.
Speaker 3: Well, it's fun to kick the ear off, gav.
Speaker 1: I thought you said a dog bark.
Speaker 1: You have a dog there.
Speaker 3: I don't have a dog here Weird, it's just
Speaker 3: jacking on a bone, just knots.
Speaker 3: Well, gav, I think what I'll probably do at
Speaker 3: this point is say some admin stuff before
Speaker 3: we say goodbye to Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: Anything you want to add before we do that?
Speaker 1: Thank you Everybody.
Speaker 1: Have a great New Year.
Speaker 1: I'm glad everyone's happy.
Speaker 1: If you're happy.
Speaker 3: Don't do this all over again.
Speaker 1: Exactly, you're not happy, then.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you're not OK, we'll confuse
Speaker 1: again.
Speaker 1: Carry on Thank you.
Speaker 1: I certainly just said anything.
Speaker 3: I can see you're really regretting opening
Speaker 3: your mouth.
Speaker 3: He's just wrung in his shoulders.
Speaker 3: Everyone, as always, then, and as we have
Speaker 3: been for the last 10 years, we are the
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Speaker 3: If you want to go over to Facebook, you can
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Speaker 3: We've got a community that has been running
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Speaker 3: Funnily enough, you can join that community,
Speaker 3: share what you're watching trailers,
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Speaker 3: including me.
Speaker 3: Also, legion have a podcast page as well,
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Speaker 3: You can also email us.
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Speaker 3: Really, tell me to fuck off, or just say
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Speaker 1: And quite possibly, as I'm wearing one, I'm
Speaker 1: wearing a tie-dye t-shirt that I was given
Speaker 1: by my middle child.
Speaker 1: It's stole one of the fresh t-shirts and
Speaker 1: tie-dye it for me and it looks kind of good.
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Speaker 3: Thank you all individually, now by name, in
Speaker 3: a very Christmassy fashion.
Speaker 3: So, first of all, thank you, don Correa.
Speaker 3: Thank you, matthew Godley.
Speaker 3: Have you been a good boy this?
Speaker 1: year.
Speaker 1: Oh has Father Christmas given you a good
Speaker 1: tickle.
Speaker 3: Oh right, this might get bad.
Speaker 3: Oh, jamie Jenkins, you've been a very good
Speaker 3: girl.
Speaker 1: Did you have a good pull-up cracker?
Speaker 3: Oh God, this is Gav saying these things
Speaker 3: off-screen, kevin S5.
Speaker 3: You very good boy.
Speaker 1: Jingle bells, jingle bells Sarah.
Speaker 3: Kay.
Speaker 3: No, oh, sarah Kay.
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoy your presents.
Speaker 1: Oh, roast potatoes, why I?
Speaker 3: don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Oh Rachel, oh Rachel, I hope you get a
Speaker 3: white Christmas.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh, oh oh oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
Speaker 3: oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 3: What a good boy you've been.
Speaker 3: Sit on my lap, oh oh, rj.
Speaker 3: Oh, rj, you have been a good boy, and
Speaker 3: finally, Lex Boo, what a wonderful girl
Speaker 3: you've been this Christmas.
Speaker 3: May your days be merry and bright.
Speaker 3: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh.
Speaker 3: I've always wanted to be Santa.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Thank you, merry Christmas Patreons.
Speaker 3: I hope you guys all enjoyed that and I hope
Speaker 3: Santa comes down your chimney and empties
Speaker 3: his sack all over you.
Speaker 3: Oh the place, oh the classics, the classics.
Speaker 3: But listen, go pour your cracker and
Speaker 3: whatever it is you do, stuff your bird,
Speaker 3: stuff your turkey and pour gravy over
Speaker 3: everything.
Speaker 3: And drink some egg drink some egg mog and
Speaker 3: smoke some chocochoccalola, chocochoccalola,
Speaker 3: chocochoccalola.
Speaker 1: Chocochoccalola.
Speaker 1: Smoke some chocochoccalola.
Speaker 3: Smoke some chocochoccalola and drink some
Speaker 3: egg mog, and may your days be merry and
Speaker 3: bright.
Speaker 1: You know maybe your days be buried, buried.
Speaker 3: Days be buried under the sun.
Speaker 1: Let's finish this now.
Speaker 1: Let's finish this.
Speaker 3: Listen, it's a good night from Clark
Speaker 3: Griswold.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 3: It's a good night from Coslett, it was you
Speaker 3: it was Paul, and it's a good night from
Speaker 3: Snotts yacking on a bone.
Speaker 1: Indeed, it is and it's.
Speaker 1: A good night from you.
Speaker 3: It's a good night from me and it's a good
Speaker 3: night from Santa and it's a little helpers
Speaker 3: and it's a good night from me.
Speaker 1: Good night everybody.
Speaker 3: What does Snoop Dogg say at Christmas?
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Ho ho, ho.
Speaker 3: Good night everyone.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to the podcast on
Speaker 1: Haunted Hill.
Speaker 1: We will be back again real soon, merry
Speaker 1: Christmas.